著者

小山 由

出版者

成城大学

雑誌

常民文化 = Jomin bunka (ISSN:03888908)

巻号頁・発行日

no.38, pp.1-31, 2015-03

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The idea that there is a relationship between personality based on ABO blood type and the nature of each individual has been widely accepted in Japan. This understanding has been scientifically referred to as the blood type stereotype. In my previous paper, I argued that there are deficiencies in the definition and its naming. I renamed the "classification of people based on blood type," and defined it as the idea that classifies all human beings into four groups according to their blood type based on ABO blood typing. ABO blood typing attempts to match the exchange relationships among each ABO blood type with the relationships between each human group using knowledge of blood transfusions. That point needs to be noted first. For the acceptance and sustainment of this concept that people can be classified based on blood type, a number of scientific interpretations have been added primarily by psychologists. In their interpretations, classification based on blood type has been accepted. Although the idea is scientifically incorrect, people continue to believe the idea because it helps to smooth their relationships or it is deceiving their cognition. However, this interpretation has a fundamental error. The purpose of this paper is to point out the error of the traditional interpretation and to present a different interpretation. First, I will show that the traditional classification of people based on blood type is composed of imagery derived from three elements: doctrine, guru and believers. In addition, I describe the assumption that individuals are deceived by the ruses used by scammers who call themselves gurus. Next, I discuss that expressions such as 'believers,' which are frequently used in the conventional interpretation, generated the illusion that the Observer/interpreter can read an individual's inner mind. I show that the expression of the term 'believers' is a scientific problem. If it is understood as above, the context of sustainment and acceptance of the classification based on blood type can be perceived as a characteristic idea that people can easily use and is unforgettable, rather than the idea that people are deceived by the pseudo-scientific illogic of classifying individuals based on blood type. As I have shown in the previous paper, the classification of people based on blood type belongs to an image of the relationships among ABO blood types that can also be applied to people, and the idea of classification based on blood type has no scientific credibility. The conventional interpretation was generated by the stereotype that humans can be easily fooled by pseudo-scientific thinking.