心理学报2025，Vol.57Issue(4)：513-525,13.DOI:10.3724/SP.J.1041.2025.0513
叙述性信息对狭隘合作行为的影响机制
The impact of narrative information on parochial cooperative and its mechanisms
摘要
Abstract
Recently,the trend of parochialism is on the rise worldwide.Some countries,regions and organizations engage in parochial cooperation to seek their own short-term gains at the cost of long-term interests of other groups and even all humankind.How to reduce parochial cooperation has become a significant concern both in academia and in policy-making.Narrative information is defined as descriptions of a series of related events or experiences in words through a narrative.Numerous studies have found that narrative information can effectively mitigate parochial empathy and parochial altruism.Thus,this study predicts that narrative information would attenuate parochial cooperation,and further explores its mechanism in terms of perceived similarity.In addition,because groups are typically embedded within more complex relational networks,the context of intergroup relation is introduced to examine its possible moderating effects. In three studies utilizing behavioral experiments and questionnaire surveys based on the minimal group paradigm,narrative information was categorized as viewpoint-related narrative information,which depicts the mental state of the main character of the story,and event-related narrative information,which depicts the objective situations in which the event occurs.Study 1(N=37)examined the effects of narrative information on parochial cooperation behavior through the Public Goods Game(PGG).Study 2(N=40)adopted the Intergroup Parochial and Universal Cooperation game(IPUC)to investigate the effects of narrative information on three types of cooperation behavior:strong parochial cooperation,weak parochial cooperation and universal cooperation,and examined the mediating role of perceived similarity between narrative information and parochial cooperation behavior.Study 3(N=80)manipulated intergroup relation as cooperation versus competition to explore its moderating effect on the link between narrative information and parochial cooperation behavior. The results of the studies supported the following conclusions.(1)Viewpoint-related narrative information significantly reduces parochial cooperative behavior more than event-related narrative information.(2)Perceived similarity full mediated the link between narrative information and strong parochial cooperative behavior.Specifically,compared to event-related narrative information,viewpoint-related narrative information elicited a higher level of perceived similarity in participants,which consequently inhibited strong parochial cooperative behavior.(3)Intergroup relation played a moderating role in the causal link between narrative information and parochial cooperative behavior,and also played a moderating role between narrative information and strong parochial cooperative behavior.In particular,in the context of cooperation,narrative information exhibited no significant effect on parochial cooperation and strong parochial cooperation,whereas in competitive context,viewpoint-related narrative information conversely increased the level of strong parochial cooperation. This study is the first to explore paths to reduce parochial cooperation between groups from the perspective of daily social information exchanges.It provides a new theoretical approach to understanding and enriching the mechanism of parochial cooperation behavior.Moreover,against the backdrop of increasing intergroup conflicts and deglobalization,this study has important implications for promoting intergroup cooperation and boosting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.关键词
狭隘合作行为/叙述性信息/感知相似性/群际关系Key words
parochial cooperation behavior/narrative description/perceived similarity/intergroup relation分类
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何宁,王紫祎,林嘉浩,李梦,游旭群..叙述性信息对狭隘合作行为的影响机制[J].心理学报,2025,57(4):513-525,13.基金项目
国家社会科学基金教育学一般项目(BRA240228). （BRA240228）
