Every Science/Nature Potter Praises His Own Pot-Can We Believe What He Says Based on His Mother Tongue? | |
Li, Shu1; Bi, Yan-Ling2; Rao, Li-Lin2 | |
第一作者 | Li, Shu |
通讯作者邮箱 | lishu@psych.ac.cn |
心理所单位排序 | 1 |
摘要 | It has been consistently observed that people are generally overconfident in their judgments or decisions and that overconfidence in general knowledge is typically stronger among Asian than among Western subject groups. However, scientists, whose job is to produce neutral and objective knowledge, are expected to be immune to overconfidence and to be independent of cross-cultural variation. The authors conducted an email survey to determine whether well-trained scholars are really immune to the overconfidence bias and whether cross-cultural variations in overconfidence exist among scientists from different language backgrounds. Contrary to the authors' expectations, scientists who published their works in Science or Nature were inaccurate, overconfident, likely to nominate the journal they published in to have a greater impact factor, and easier to generate supportive rather than opposite arguments for their own conclusions. The authors also found that Chinese-speaking authors exhibited greater overconfidence but generated fewer arguments than did their English-speaking counterparts, which is consistent with Yates, Lee, and Shinotsuka's argument recruitment model. The pervasive overconfidence and its cross-cultural variations suggest that an academic author may not communicate his or her conclusions to readers in an impartial and value-free manner, and therefore, the job of detecting bias is hoped to be taken and done well by the reader. |
关键词 | overconfidence language background Science Nature |
学科领域 | Cultural Psychology |
2011 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY |
ISSN | 0022-0221 |
卷号 | 42期号:1页码:125-130 |
URL | 查看原文 |
收录类别 | SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000284998400009 |
WOS分区 | Q2 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/11504 |
专题 | 社会与工程心理学研究室 |
通讯作者 | Li, Shu |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Ctr Social & Econ Behav, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Sch, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China |
第一作者单位 | 社会与工程心理学研究室 |
通讯作者单位 | 社会与工程心理学研究室 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li, Shu,Bi, Yan-Ling,Rao, Li-Lin. Every Science/Nature Potter Praises His Own Pot-Can We Believe What He Says Based on His Mother Tongue?[J]. JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY,2011,42(1):125-130. |
APA | Li, Shu,Bi, Yan-Ling,&Rao, Li-Lin.(2011).Every Science/Nature Potter Praises His Own Pot-Can We Believe What He Says Based on His Mother Tongue?.JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY,42(1),125-130. |
MLA | Li, Shu,et al."Every Science/Nature Potter Praises His Own Pot-Can We Believe What He Says Based on His Mother Tongue?".JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY 42.1(2011):125-130. |
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