Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PN, United Kingdom.
Behav Brain Sci. 2010 Jun;33(2-3):84-5. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X10000038. Epub 2010 Jun 15.
While we agree that the cultural imbalance in the recruitment of participants in psychology experiments is highly detrimental, we emphasize the need to complement this criticism with a warning about the "weirdness" of some cross-cultural studies showing seemingly deep cultural differences. We take the example of economic games and suggest that the variety of results observed in these games may not be due to deep psychological differences per se, but rather due to different interpretations of the situation.
虽然我们同意心理学实验参与者的文化失衡对研究极具危害性,但我们强调需要对这种批评进行补充,提醒人们注意一些跨文化研究中表现出的看似深刻的文化差异的“奇异”之处。我们以经济博弈为例,认为这些博弈中观察到的多样性结果可能不是由于深层次的心理差异,而是由于对情境的不同解释。