社会变迁中心理与行为的稳定性：以谦虚效应为例

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1041.2024.00994

摘要/Abstract

摘要：

面对百年未有之大变局及生活质量生活方式的剧烈变迁, 人们的心理行为乃至文化会如何变异?作者假设尽管社会变迁会影响和改变人类的某些心理和行为, 但有些心理行为, 因其受深层文化影响, 会十分稳定, 不受社会变迁的影响。近30年的有关谦虚效应的跨文化研究为这一假设提供了佐证。谦虚是中国传统文化深层结构中的集体主义的产物, 这种跨文化差异本质上来源于东西方文化中个人主义与集体主义的差异。总结谦虚效应的30年系列研究结果表明尽管中国的经济社会发生了前所未有的发展, 这个跨文化效应基本不变, 说明源于深层文化的心理和行为存在高度的稳定性。

关键词: 谦虚效应, 说谎, 集体主义, 社会变迁, 稳定性

Abstract:

Faced with historically unprecedented improvements in the economy and quality of life, how will human psychology and behavior evolve? We hypothesize that although social changes will influence and alter certain aspects of human psychology and behavior, others, deeply rooted in culture, will remain stable and unaffected. Nearly thirty years of cross-cultural research on the modesty effect supports this hypothesis. Modesty, a product of the collectivism deeply embedded in Chinese traditional culture, exemplifies these cross-cultural differences stemming from the fundamental differences between individualism and collectivism in Eastern and Western societies. After summarizing three decades of research on the modesty effect, we find that despite China's dramatic economic and social developments, this cross-cultural effect has remained largely constant, indicating a high level of stability due to its profound cultural foundations.

Key words: modesty, lie, collectivism, social change, stability

中图分类号:

B849:C91

傅根跃, 李康. (2024). 社会变迁中心理与行为的稳定性：以谦虚效应为例. 心理学报, 56(7), 994-998.

FU Genyue, Kang LEE. (2024). Psychological and behavioral stability in a rapid changing society: An illustration of modesty effect. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 56(7), 994-998.

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