Department of Psychology, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang, China.
Int J Psychol. 2022 Dec;57(6):735-742. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12868. Epub 2022 Jun 24.
This research aimed to investigate whether the personality impressions Southern Chinese formed on people who were from South China or North China predicted intergroup trust. Study 1 adopted the one-shot trust game to measure intergroup trust, in which the participant decided the amounts of money they would like to invest with the members of the ingroup and the members of the outgroup. After that, they assessed the personality traits of the two groups with a set of trait words. Results suggested that participants invested more average amounts of money with the outgroup than with the ingroup, and the investment in the northerners was significantly correlated with the trait impressions of the northerners. Study 2 conducted a survey to specify the positive and negative aspects of personality impressions made on the two groups. Results revealed that some untrustworthy and dislike traits were regarded as the negative traits in the ingroup rather than in the outgroup, though participants distinguished the positive personality traits between the two groups. The complexity-extremity theory was applied to explain the results of preferring to trust the outgroup over the ingroup in relation to the representation of personality impressions of the two groups.
本研究旨在探讨南方中国人对来自华南或华北的人的人格印象是否预测了群体间信任。研究 1 采用单次信任博弈来衡量群体间信任，在该博弈中，参与者决定他们愿意与内群体成员和外群体成员投资的金额。之后，他们用一组特质词评估了这两个群体的特质。结果表明，参与者与外群体成员的平均投资金额多于与内群体成员的投资金额，而对北方人的投资与对北方人的特质印象呈显著相关。研究 2 通过调查来确定对这两个群体的人格印象的积极和消极方面。结果表明，一些不可信和不喜欢的特质被视为内群体而不是外群体的负面特质，尽管参与者区分了两个群体之间的积极特质。复杂性-极端性理论被用来解释与两个群体的人格印象的表现有关的，更倾向于信任外群体而不是内群体的结果。
