Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2013 Aug 19;8(8):e71829. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071829. eCollection 2013.
Trust is a vital lubricant that increases the sense of security in social interactions. In this study, we investigated the intergroup trust between the Uyghur and the Han, the two largest ethnic groups in Xinjiang, China, with a Go/No-Go Association Task. Specifically, we instructed Uyghur and Han participants to respond to ethnic faces (Uyghur vs. Han) and trust/distrust words and measured the strength of the automatic associations between the faces and words for both in-group and out-group pairs. As expected, both ethnic groups showed implicit in-group trust and out-group distrust, but the Han group demonstrated stronger in-group trust and out-group distrust toward the Uyghur than the Uyghur group toward the Han. However, the magnitude of distrust of the Han toward the Uyghur was small to medium as compared with that reported by other intergroup relationship research. In addition, participant geographic location was associated with out-group distrust. These findings offer implications for developing effective strategies to encourage trust between conflicting groups.
信任是一种至关重要的润滑剂，能增加社交互动中的安全感。在这项研究中，我们使用 Go/No-Go 关联任务，调查了中国新疆最大的两个民族维吾尔族和汉族之间的群体间信任。具体来说，我们指导维吾尔族和汉族参与者对族裔面孔（维吾尔族与汉族）和信任/不信任的词语做出反应，并测量了面孔和词语之间的自动联想对群体内和群体外的配对的强度。正如预期的那样，两个民族群体都表现出内群体信任和外群体不信任，但汉族对维吾尔族的内群体信任和外群体不信任强于维吾尔族对汉族的内群体信任和外群体不信任。然而，与其他群体间关系研究报告的结果相比，汉族对维吾尔族的不信任程度较小到中等。此外，参与者的地理位置与对外群体的不信任有关。这些发现为制定鼓励冲突群体之间信任的有效策略提供了启示。
