DroR Releases Free COS Observation Record Sheet for Research Use
DroR Corporation published version 1.0 of its COS Observation Record Sheet on November 4, a free four-page A4 PDF with no registration required.
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Why it matters
The sheet gives researchers and outside recorders one shared format for the three categories the company's own paper calls candidates awaiting empirical verification, while the company states the recording procedure's validity and reliability are unverified.
Key Facts
- DroR Corporation released version 1.0 of the COS Observation Record Sheet (for Research) on November 4, 2026.
- The sheet is a free A4 PDF of four pages with no registration required, licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Makoto Yamanaka and Masaya Nakamori published the related conceptual paper in Frontiers in Psychology.
- The three categories are communication responsiveness and approval norms, distribution of speech in group settings, and responses to disclosure of negative information.
- The sheet uses position categories and placeholder symbols instead of individual names.
The sheet separates what happened from how the recorder read it across three categories cited in a Frontiers in Psychology paper by Makoto Yamanaka and Masaya Nakamori: communication responsiveness and approval norms, distribution of speech in group settings, and responses to disclosure of negative information.
The form records no individual names. Fields use position categories and placeholder symbols instead, and readings such as "intimidated" or "defensive" belong only in the interpretation field. For responsiveness, it logs the send time, the first response time, and the kind of response. For group speech, it counts utterances by position category and notes whether each remark was taken up in the following discussion.
Responses to negative information are logged per incident, in order, with a summary of the first words and what followed. The PDF ships with a filled-in example built on a fictional scenario on a separate sheet. It is licensed CC BY 4.0, and DroR frames the intended users as researchers, graduate students, and outside recorders, with classroom use for practicing the fact and interpretation split.
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