Ono Akira, Meng Xianwei
Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Front Psychol. 2025 Apr 23;16:1529892. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1529892. eCollection 2025.
Risk-taking behavior occurs everywhere in our social lives, but little is known about how it is socially evaluated. Previous research has shown that risk-taking functions as a signal of a risk-taker's dominance and prestige, increasing their likelihood of being endorsed as a leader in intergroup competitive contexts. However, the findings were obtained from Western cultures, leaving it unclear how these social evaluations are made in other cultures. This study investigated the social evaluations of risk-takers among Japanese individuals, who are rooted in Eastern culture which has been known that many social norms and traditions differ from Western cultures. Through a survey-based investigation ( = 299), we found that while risk-takers are perceived as more dominant, there was no difference in prestige evaluation between risk-takers and risk-avoiders. Moreover, leadership endorsement varies across contexts, with risk-taking increasing endorsement in competitive situations but decreasing it in cooperative ones, mediated by perceived dominance. These findings not only clarified the social evaluation of risk-taking behavior in one of the Eastern cultures but also provided insights into nuanced perceptions of risk-takers across diverse cultural settings.
冒险行为在我们的社会生活中随处可见，但对于它是如何在社会层面上被评价的，我们却知之甚少。先前的研究表明，冒险行为是冒险者主导地位和威望的一种信号，这增加了他们在群体间竞争环境中被认可为领导者的可能性。然而，这些研究结果是从西方文化中获得的，尚不清楚在其他文化中这些社会评价是如何形成的。本研究调查了日本人群体中对冒险者的社会评价，日本文化植根于东方文化，众所周知，其许多社会规范和传统与西方文化不同。通过一项基于调查的研究（样本量 = 299），我们发现，虽然冒险者被认为更具主导性，但冒险者和风险规避者在威望评价上并无差异。此外，领导认可因情境而异，冒险行为在竞争情境中会增加认可，但在合作情境中会减少认可，这一过程由感知到的主导性介导。这些发现不仅阐明了一种东方文化中冒险行为的社会评价，还为不同文化背景下对冒险者的细微差别认知提供了见解。
