Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2022, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (2): 402-408.

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Differences in the Implicit Cognitive Processing of Altruistic Information among Residents with Different Levels of Sense of Community Responsibility

  

  • Received:2020-10-07 Revised:2021-06-21 Online:2022-03-20 Published:2022-12-11

不同社区责任感水平的居民对利他信息内隐认知加工的差异

杨超1,陈红2,胡小勇2,2,王艳丽3,罗一君2   

  1. 1. 贵州师范大学
    2. 西南大学
    3. 江苏师范大学
  • 通讯作者: 陈红

Abstract: Sense of community responsibility as an attitude including cognition of self-responsibility to other people and relationships in the community, willingness to emotionally invest in the well-being and collective interests of others, and motivation to put one’s words into actions and accept the consequence of their actions. It has a positive relationship with altruistic behavior. Studies have found that both picture stimulation and vocabulary stimulation can trigger people's implicit altruistic effect. In comparison, the measurement of implicit altruism has higher ecological validity than the measurement of explicit altruism, and can effectively predict the rapid occurrence of altruistic behavior in real situations. At present, the relationship between sense of community responsibility and implicit altruism is not known, but its relationship is of great value for understanding the relationship between sense of community responsibility and altruistic behavior. Based on the dual system theory, this research aims to explore the relationship between implicit altruistic behavior and explicit altruism, as well as the difference in the level of sense of community responsibility of implicit altruistic behavior, so as from the perspective of implicit cognitive processing to explain the relationship between sense of community responsibility and individual altruistic behavior. With the implicit association test, two parallel experiments were conducted to explore the relationship between the level of sense of community responsibility and the implicit altruism of residents. 217 subjects participated in the experiments, of which 57 were males and 160 were females, aged from 18 to 50 years old. Results show that individuals have significant implicit altruistic self-concept evaluation effects and implicit altruistic attitude evaluation effects. Implicit altruism and explicit altruism are not significantly correlated. The level of sense of community responsibility and the implicit effect value are significant positive correlation. Regardless of the level of sense of community responsibility, the residents' response time to compatible tasks is less than that of the incompatible tasks. The IAT effect value of the high sense of community responsibility group is significantly greater than the low sense of community responsibility group. There are significant differences in the self-concept processing and attitude evaluation processing of altruistic words and non-altruistic words among individuals with different sense of community responsibilities. Individuals with a higher sense of community responsibility are more inclined to associate altruism with self and make positive evaluations, and associate non-altruism with others and make negative evaluations. Although this study verifies the relationship between sense of community responsibility and implicit altruism for the first time, there are still the following shortcomings. First, past studies have shown that picture stimulation can also trigger people's IAT effect, and words stimulate significantly correlated with the IAT effect of picture words. Therefore, future research can further verify the relationship between sense of community responsibility and implicit altruistic evaluation effects by adding altruistic pictures. Second, researchers believe that the intuition processing of implicit social cognition also involves rational processing. Therefore, future research can use the process dissociation procedure to analyze and compare the differences in the level of community responsibility between conscious and unconscious processing of altruistic information.

Key words: sense of community responsibility, implicit altruistic tendency, dual-system theory, self-promotion theory

摘要: 本研究以双系统理论为基础,旨在探究内隐利他行为倾向在社区责任感水平上的差异。结果发现:(1)个体存在显著的内隐利他自我概念和内隐利他态度;(2)内隐利他与外显利他相关不显著;(3)社区责任感水平与内隐利他行为倾向显著正相关,无论社区责任感水平的高低,居民在相容任务中的反应时都小于不相容任务的反应时;(4)高社区责任感组的内隐利他行为倾向显著大于低社区责任感组。结果表明,居民的内隐利他行为倾向在社区责任感水平上存在显著差异,高社区责任感的个体更倾向于将自我与利他信息相关联并作出积极的评价,同时将他人与非利他信息相关联并作出消极的评价。

关键词: 社区责任感, 内隐利他行为倾向, 双系统理论, 自我促进理论