什么是一个富有同情心的脸? 避免负面影响解释了美国美国人和中国人之间的差异
Jia Hui Seow1, Hongfei Du2,3, Birgit Koopmann-Holm1
1Department of Psychology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Cognition & emotion
|August 23, 2024
概括
中国人和美国人对同情心的看法不同:中国人把同情心和悲伤联系在一起,而美国人更喜欢微笑. 这种差异与文化倾向避免消极情绪有关,影响跨文化理解.
科学领域:
- 跨文化心理学跨文化心理学
- 情感科学是一种科学.
- 社会的认知社会认知.
背景情况:
- 文化展示规则显著塑造了情感表达和感知.
- 以前的研究表明,德国人和美国人对同情心的概念不同,美国人倾向于更少的负面情绪表现.
- "避免负面影响" (ANA) 的作用已被确定为一个关键的文化差异化因素.
研究的目的:
- 调查中国人对慈悲面部表情的概念化.
- 为了比较中国人和美国人对富有同情心的面孔的看法.
- 为了检查个人在避免负面影响 (ANA) 中的差异是否会调解同情感知中的文化差异.
主要方法:
- 来自中国和美国的参与者完成了反向关联任务,以识别一个富有同情心的面孔的心理表现.
- 参与者还完成了一项测量,评估他们避免负面影响的倾向 (ANA).
- 使用统计分析来比较面部感知和测试中介效应.
主要成果:
- 与美国人相比,中国参与者对同情心的心理表现包括更多的悲伤和更少的幸福感.
- 中国参与者报告的避免负面影响 (ANA) 水平低于美国美国人.
- ANA显著调解了观察到的文化差异在概念化同情心.
结论:
- 对同情的文化概念,特别是与之相关的面部表情,在中国和美国的背景之间有很大的差异.
- 避免负面影响的倾向 (ANA) 是解释这些跨文化差异的关键因素.
- 这些发现对治疗干预和理解全球化的世界中的同情有意义,突出了情感体验和表达之间的相互作用.
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