Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health, and Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Jishou University, Jishou, China.
Scand J Psychol. 2019 Aug;60(4):394-403. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12552. Epub 2019 May 23.
Group, which involves collective actions for achieving shared goals, can be conceptually understood as an important source of agency and control. The current research investigated whether group identity salience can enhance sense of agency within the individual. Specifically, we examined whether an activated cultural group identity, through presenting different types of cultural photographs in a predictable way, would facilitate people's sense of agency by using an implicit method, namely, intentional binding effect paradigm. Experiment 1a found that an activated cultural group identity enhanced the sense of agency. Next, Experiment 1b replicated the findings by recruiting a different ethnic group in the same society. Experiment 2 explored what may affect the intensity of induced sense of agency and found that perceived representativeness of the presented cultural stimuli was positively correlated with the intensity of induced sense of agency. Finally, Experiment 3 explored whether ethnic minority and majority groups would demonstrate different intensity of agency when their cultural identity was activated. The results showed that the sense of agency induced by the mainstream cultural stimuli was greater than that induced by the foreign cultural photographs. These patterns were not different between the two ethnic groups. Taken together, these findings reflected the dynamic nature of cultural identity construction in a multicultural society.
群体通过集体行动来实现共同目标，可以被概念化为一种重要的能动性和控制力的来源。本研究旨在探究群体认同凸显能否增强个体的主体感。具体而言，我们通过以一种内隐的方式，即意图绑定效应范式，检验了激活的文化群体认同是否会通过呈现不同类型的文化照片来促进人们的主体感。实验 1a 发现，激活的文化群体认同增强了主体感。接下来，实验 1b 通过在同一社会中招募不同的族群，复制了这一发现。实验 2 探讨了什么因素可能会影响诱发的主体感的强度，发现呈现的文化刺激的感知代表性与诱发的主体感的强度呈正相关。最后，实验 3 探讨了在激活其文化认同时，少数民族和多数群体的能动性是否会表现出不同的强度。结果表明，主流文化刺激引起的主体感大于外国文化照片引起的主体感。这两个族群之间的模式没有差异。总的来说，这些发现反映了多元文化社会中文化认同建构的动态性质。
