Wang Yi-Meng, Wang Feng-Yan, Talhelm Thomas, Chen Yi-Qun
School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China.
School of Psychology & Institute of Moral Education Research, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Br J Psychol. 2025 May;116(2):460-483. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12767. Epub 2025 Jan 13.
This study reports new evidence that young people in Mainland China are now bicultural. We followed the established method of testing biculturalism by priming participants with images from two different cultures and measuring whether those images activate different thought styles. First, we replicated findings from 25 years ago that college students in Hong Kong are bicultural (Study 1). Next, we found that priming Mainland Chinese college students with Chinese culture increased external attributions (which are more common in China), whereas priming American culture increased internal attributions (which are more common in the US; Study 2). Next, we tested a "negative control" group that we expected should not respond to bicultural primes. Older adults who were born before China's Reform and Opening policy in 1978 showed no evidence of biculturalism (Study 3). This new evidence extends biculturalism to Mainland China, and it provides a crucial negative control test for biculturalism research.
本研究报告了新的证据，表明中国大陆的年轻人现在具有双文化特征。我们遵循了通过用来自两种不同文化的图像启动参与者并测量这些图像是否激活不同思维方式来测试双文化主义的既定方法。首先，我们复制了25年前的研究结果，即香港的大学生具有双文化特征（研究1）。接下来，我们发现用中国文化启动中国大陆的大学生会增加外部归因（在中国更常见），而用美国文化启动则会增加内部归因（在美国更常见；研究2）。接下来，我们测试了一个我们预期不会对双文化启动做出反应的“阴性对照组”。1978年中国改革开放政策之前出生的老年人没有表现出双文化特征的证据（研究3）。这一新证据将双文化主义扩展到了中国大陆，并为双文化主义研究提供了关键的阴性对照测试。
