学经济学降低人际信任?经济类专业学习对大学生人际信任的影响  

Does Knowledge of Economics Encourage Interpersonal Distrust? Impact of Economic Learning on Interpersonal Trust in Undergraduates

作　　者：辛自强[1] 窦东徽[1] 陈超[1,2] 

机构地区：[1]中央财经大学社会发展学院心理学系,北京100081 [2]北京师范大学认知神经科学与学习国家重点实验室,北京100875

出　　处：《心理科学进展》2013年第1期31-36,共6页Advances in Psychological Science

基　　金：教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划资助(NCET-10-0869);中央财经大学科研创新团队支持计划资助

摘　　要：本研究试图证明,经济类专业学习会降低大学生的人际信任。研究者测量了某财经类重点高校经济类和非经济类专业的大一和大三共290名本科生的人际信任水平,发现专业类型和年级存在显著交互作用,大一的经济类学生和非经济类学生在人际信任水平上无显著差异,而大三的经济类学生在人际信任水平上却显著低于非经济类专业。这说明经济类专业学习时间的增加可能是学生人际信任水平下降的原因,可能的机制是,学习经济学会使个体逐渐接受和认同"理性人假设"所包含的人性观点,认为他人的行为都是基于自私和功利的目的。The main purpose of this study was to examine whether the study of economics knowledge may reduce the level of interpersonal trust of undergraduates. The researchers measured the levels of interpersonal trust of 290 freshmen and junior-year college students in economics or non-economics majors in a key university of finance and economics. The results showed that there was a significant interaction between major and grade： for freshmen, no significant difference in the level of interpersonal trust was found between economics and noneconomics majors; however, for junior-year students, the interpersonal trust level of students majoring in economics was much lower than that of noneconomics-majors. This finding implies that increasing learning of economics knowledge results in decreases in students’ interpersonal trust. A reasonable explanation is that students’ view of the essence of humanity is shaped by Rational Man Hypothesis embodied in the economics major, which emphasizes the selfish and utilitarian purpose of human behaviors.

关 键 词：经济学 理性人假设 人际信任 大学生 

分 类 号：B849[哲学宗教—应用心理学] C91[哲学宗教—心理学]