DiBiase Rosemarie, Gunnoe Jaime
Education and Human Services Department, Suffolk University, Boston, MA 02114-4280, USA.
J Soc Psychol. 2004 Feb;144(1):49-62. doi: 10.3200/SOCP.144.1.49-62.
The authors used gender and culture to examine the theory that touching behavior is an expression of dominance. Participants were 120 men and women from Italy, the Czech Republic, and the United States. The authors examined both hand touches and nonhand touches. For hand touches, there was a significant gender-by-culture interaction in that Czech men as a group touched more than any of the other groups. For nonhand touches, Czech and Italian women and Italian men as groups touched significantly more than any of the other groups. Taken in cultural context, these results seem to support the dominance theory for touches with the hand but not for nonhand touches. The authors discussed implications and future directions.
作者利用性别和文化来检验触碰行为是支配欲表现这一理论。参与者是来自意大利、捷克共和国和美国的120名男性和女性。作者考察了手部触碰和非手部触碰。对于手部触碰，存在显著的性别与文化交互作用，即捷克男性作为一个群体的触碰比其他任何群体都多。对于非手部触碰，捷克和意大利女性以及意大利男性作为群体的触碰比其他任何群体都显著更多。结合文化背景来看，这些结果似乎支持了手部触碰的支配理论，但不支持非手部触碰的支配理论。作者讨论了研究的意义和未来方向。
