Geeraert Nicolas, Yzerbyt Vincent Y
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2007 Jun;46(Pt 2):423-35. doi: 10.1348/014466606X162062.
Although social observers have been found to rely heavily on dispositions in their causal analysis, it has been proposed that culture strongly affects this tendency. Recent research has shown that suppressing dispositional inferences during social judgment can lead to a dispositional rebound, that is relying more on dispositional information in subsequent judgments. In the present research, we investigated whether culture also affects this rebound tendency. First, Thai and Belgian participants took part in a typical attitude attribution paradigm. Next, dispositional rebound was assessed by having participants describe a series of pictures. The dispositional rebound occurred for both Belgian and Thai participants when confronted with a forced target, but disappeared for Thai participants when the situational constraints of the target were made salient. The findings are discussed in light of the current cultural models of attribution theory.
尽管社会观察者在因果分析中被发现严重依赖性格因素，但有人提出文化会强烈影响这种倾向。最近的研究表明，在社会判断过程中抑制性格推断会导致性格反弹，即在随后的判断中更多地依赖性格信息。在本研究中，我们调查了文化是否也会影响这种反弹倾向。首先，泰国和比利时的参与者参与了一个典型的态度归因范式。接下来，通过让参与者描述一系列图片来评估性格反弹。当面对一个强制目标时，比利时和泰国的参与者都出现了性格反弹，但当目标的情境限制变得显著时，泰国参与者的性格反弹消失了。我们根据当前归因理论的文化模型对研究结果进行了讨论。
