TOK PRESENTATION

BLOOD TYPES AND

PERSONATLIY
 OUR TOK ISSUE
 To what extent,
how perceptions play
a significant role to create
certain prejudices.
 TOK TOPIC
 Does the blood type make people to have
certain prejudices?
 MOVIE
|MY BOYFRIEND IS TYPE B
WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?

 Knowledge must be justified by

empirical evidence or logic or
memory or authority.
 Knowledge must be true.

 Knowledge must be believed.

 Knowledge can be effectively

and accurately communicated

AS A KNOWER

 We need to justify whether our knowledge is vali

d or not.
 We need to prove whether our knowledge is true
or not.
 We need to prove whether our knowledge is cred
ible or not.
 We need to prove whether our knowledge is pro
perly communicated or not.
THE QUESTIONS TO BE RAISED
 How do western people think about the knowledge
of each blood type in Korea and Japan society?
 How the categorizing upon blood type influences indi
vidual’s life?
 How do Koreans and Japanese started to link blood t
ype to personality ?
 What are the similar believes or myths in western whi
ch creates prejudices like blood type does in Korea.
 How do people Koreans and Japanese justify that rela
tionship between blood type and personality.
 How do these categorizing give effects on economic?
THE STORY OF PERSONALITY DEPE
ND ON BLOOD TYPES
- The discovery of blood types in 1901 has been hailed
as one of the greatest advances in medical history, bu
t the breakthrough was then used by the Nazis to furt
her their eugenics program, and claim the superiority
of Germans -- mostly types A and O -- over Jews, Asia
ns and others with a larger proportion of type B blood.

- The theory reached Japan in a 1927 psychologist's rep

ort, and the militarist government of the time commis
sioned a study aimed at breeding better soldiers. The
craze faded in the 1930s as its unscientific basis beca
me evident. It was revived in the 1970s with a book b
y Masahiko Nomi, an advocate and broadcaster with n
o medical background.
 CAN BLOOD TYPE
DETERMINE CHARACTER?

 Medical experts assert the widespread belief here

that blood type lends insight into character is scie
ntifically ``groundless,'' but it seems to have beco
me an important factor to consider by unmarried
women in deciding whom they will date in the fu
ture.
WHICH ONE COMES FIRST?
 Does the blood type influence one’s personality?
The blood type is the factor which determine one’s personality
as it is believed.
OR
 Does the prejudice influence one’s personality?
The prejudice and social perception builds up one’s personalit
y due to the expectation.

Ex) Jenny is in blood group A and she is perfectionist.

It is because one is blood type A and the feature is instinctive
OR
Is it because one is told to behave like blood type A since one
was young.
 BLOOD TYPE A
 Strength
 avoid confrontation
 shy and sometimes withdrawn
 seek harmony
 Polite
 feel that they never really fit in with others
 Responsible
 crave success and are perfectionists
 Creative
 Artistic
 sensitive
 BLOOD TYPE B
• Wild
• Active
• Doer
• Selfish
• Irresponsible
• Dislike restrictions and one's own way
• Non-stereotyped action
• Non-stereotyped thinking
• Self-conscious and not warped expressions
• Makes less distinction of things
• Not conscious of circumstances
• Don't care social rules and customs
 BLOOD TYPE AB
• Rational thinking
• Good critic and analyst
• Feels distant from the society
• Usually gentle and emotionally sensative
• Diplomatic
• Discriminating
• Easy-going
• Sympathetic
• Efficient
• Learns quickly
short-tempered
• complains
• dependent
• moody
 BLOOD TYPE O
• strong-willed
• judgmental
• dedicated
• self-deterministic
• Workaholic
• insecure
• emotional
• stubborn
• uncompromising
• over-confident
• Strongly purpose-oriented
• Straight desire
• Know how to take chances
• Dislike to be subordinate
• Expressive
JUSTIFICATION OF BLOOD TYPES A
ND PERSONALITY

 Many researchers have done the researches whic

h shows the real relationship.
ARTICLE – YONSEI UNIVERSITY STUDY
 According to recent research on the relationship between personality and blo
od type, people of type O tend to be more extroverted and people of type A t
end to be more introverted. Also, those of type A are logical and calm, but th
ose of type B, when compared to those of other blood types, are more sensiti
ve and have a more take-charge personality. Researcher Ryu Seong-il and psyc
hology professor Son Yeong-woo announced on the 21st the results of their r
esearch conducted at the Yonsei University graduate school of business. Ryu a
nd Prof. Son's paper will be presented at the winter conference of the Korean
Psychological Association. Their research has gathered interest mainly for its t
heme of personality type depending on blood type, but it is also recieving noti
ce for refuting the popular notion that there is no particular relationship and
being the first study to combine pre-existing research on blood typology. Ryu
and Son took approximately 50 research papers from within Korea and other
countries, adding up those which found a special relationship and subtracting
those which did not to estimate the effect of blood type on personality. The st
udy found that blood type A scored 14 points on the scale of extroversion to i
ntroversion, the highest score, while type O scored -15, the lowest, indicating
that A is the most introverted while O is the most extroverted. Also, type A sc
ored 10 points on the logic scale, the highest, while type B scored -7, indicatin
g that A is more logical than B
ARTICLE – YONSEI UNIVERSITY STUDY
 In particular A scored 10 points on the measure of calmness while
B scored -7, indicating B is unstable. Other than that, on the com
parison of leadership/fellowship O (3 points) was stronger than A
B (-7 points) on leadership, and on thoughtfulness/individualism
A (2 points) was the most thoughtful compared to B (-3 points),
a finding of only small differences between blood types. The over
whelming conclusion was that type A had the highest risk of cont
racting cancer compared to other blood types. Ryu explained, "ac
cording to our conclusions, type B, when compared with types A
and AB, and especially to the most extroverted type O, has to be s
een as the most introverted. We were able to confirm that the rel
ationship of personality to blood type is not absolute but is ther
e." But he emphasized, "one person's various personality traits are
the result of both genetics and environment, and cannot be verifi
ed to depend on either the stars or blood type."
 THE RESULTS OF STUDY

Blood type Introversio Logic Stability Leadershi Considerat

n p ion

A 14 10 10 -4 2
B -6 -7 -7 -1 -3
O -15 1 6 3 0
AB 5 -4 3 -7 0
WAYS OF KNOWING
• Sense Perception
• Language
• Reason
• Emotion
 LIMITATIONS TO SENSE PERCEPTION
OF PREJUDICES FROM BLOOD TYPE

 We have prejudices created by one’s blood type t

hrough the social perceptions, articles, researche
s, etc
 Still the dominance of the perception about the b
lood type in the real society is existed, but is it reli
able?
CONTROVERSIAL

 Acceptability VS Factuality

 Society VS individual

 Prejudice VS Blood type

 Group VS Personal

 Western VS Korean and Japanese

IS PERSONALITY UPON BLOOD TY
PE FREE FROM THE PERSONAL EM
OTION?
 Since there are no scientific evidences which can prov
e the real relationship between blood type and person
ality. Even the opinions about this relationship is differ
by the nationality. So we can assume that the certain
personal emotion can affect the tendency of the gene
ral social thinking. In fact, the origin of the blood type
and personality is created by western people’s persona
l emotion. So this unreliable fact has been conveying ti
ll now, even though many researches prove some feat
ures of personality caused by blood type.
 AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE

 Human science
 Science

 History
 WHAT IS THE HUMAN SCIENCE ASPE
CT IN OUR TOPIC ?

 Especially psychology
1) - Personality psychology studies enduring patter
ns of behavior, thought and emotion in individu
als, commonly referred to as personality.
2) - Social psychology is the study of social behavio
r and mental processes, with an emphasis on ho
w humans think about each other and how they
relate to each other. Social psychologists are esp
ecially interested in how people react to social si
tuations
WHAT IS THE SCIENCE ASPECT IN OU
R TOPIC?
 Science is comprehensive information on any subj
ect, but the word is especially used for informatio
n about the physical universe.
 As knowledge has increased, some methods have
proved more reliable than others, and today the
scientific method is the standard for science.
1 ) Observation

2 ) Experiment

3 ) Measurement

4) Mathematics
5 ) Replication
 WHAT IS THE HISTORY ASPECT IN OU
R TOPIC ?
 It is a field of research which uses a narrative to e
xamine and analyze the sequence of events, and i
t sometimes attempts to investigate objectively th
e patterns of cause and effect that determine eve
nts.
 Cultural history replaced social history as the dom
inant form in the 1980s and 1990s. It typically co
mbines the approaches of anthropology and hist
ory to look at language, popular cultural tradition
s and cultural interpretations of historical experie
nce.
 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OF PEOPLE
OF TRENDS OF BLOOD TYPES
 Western and other Asians except for Koreans an
d Japanese
1) – some are agreed with the know ledges of perso
nality upon blood type in Korea and Japan society
2) - the others even have any ideas about the relati
onship between blood types and personality. Thu
s they think it’s just one of the superstitious belief
in Korea and Japan.
 Koreans and Japanese
1) Most of Koreans and Japanese have positive attit
ude about different features of personality upon
blood type. But most of them do not believe it is
the valid fact.