Mepham Kieran Douglas, Martinovic Borja
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
J Lang Soc Psychol. 2018 Jan;37(1):51-73. doi: 10.1177/0261927X17706944. Epub 2017 Apr 28.
In this research, we systematically study multilingualism as a predictor of acceptance of ethnic out-groups. It is argued that people who speak more languages are more cognitively flexible, that is, they have an enhanced flexibility in understanding and representing information. Higher cognitive flexibility is in turn expected to be related to higher deprovincialization: a reevaluation of one's ethnocentric worldview. Deprovincialization is then expected to result in more openness toward ethnic out-groups, evidenced by a more inclusive notion of the national identity and reduced out-group dislike. Cross-sectional survey data among a representative sample of native Dutch participants from the Netherlands ( = 792) provide convincing support for these hypotheses and show that multilingualism is an important yet understudied factor in social-psychological research on prejudice reduction.
在本研究中，我们系统地考察了多语言能力作为对族裔外群体接纳程度预测指标的情况。研究认为，会说多种语言的人认知灵活性更高，也就是说，他们在理解和呈现信息方面具有更强的灵活性。进而，更高的认知灵活性有望与更高的去地方化程度相关联：即对自身以民族为中心的世界观进行重新评估。去地方化继而有望带来对族裔外群体更多的开放性，这表现为对国家身份有更具包容性的观念以及对外群体厌恶感的降低。来自荷兰的具有代表性的荷兰本土参与者样本（ = 792）的横断面调查数据为这些假设提供了令人信服的支持，并表明多语言能力是减少偏见的社会心理学研究中一个重要但尚未得到充分研究的因素。
