Xenophilia: Personality x Culture Interactions

基于对来自多个科学探究领域（生物和文化古人类学，社会心理学）的群体间行为研究结果的整合，以及对HEXACO人格框架的研究，我们对仇外心理的新人格观点表明，与努力相关的人格特质（即，外向性，开放性和尽责性）在预测嗜异性的个体差异方面的能力远远大于利他主义/合作相关特征水平的个体差异（即，诚实--谦卑、不诚实和不诚实）。本研究的一个潜在局限性是，前一个项目中的所有研究都是在同一个文化背景下（德国）进行的。因此，目前还不清楚德国背景下的流行文化取向是否以及在多大程度上（例如，在文化个人主义方面，霍夫施泰德，1980年;豪斯，汉斯，贾维丹，多夫曼，和古普塔，2004年）或普遍的群体为基础的信念有助于观察到的人格效应模式。后续项目的一个主要目标是建立和测试我们的研究结果的跨文化的普遍性。为此，作者进行了一系列的跨文化调查。此外，实验室实验测试在受控条件下孤立的人格维度，文化取向和基于群体的信念之间的潜在相互作用。

Building on an integration of research findings on intergroup behavior from multiple fields of scientific inquiry (biological and cultural paleoanthropology, social psychology), as well as research on the HEXACO personality framework our fresh personality perspective on xenophilie suggests that that individual differences in the levels of endeavor-related personality traits (i.e., Extraversion, Openness, and Conscientiousness) have a substantially greater power in predicting individual differences in xenophilia than individual differences in levels of altruism/cooperation-related traits (i.e., Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, and Agreeableness). A potential limitation of this research is that all studies in the previous project have been conducted in one and same cultural context (Germany). It thus remains fairly unclear whether and to what extent prevalent cultural orientations in the German context (e.g., in terms of cultural individualism, Hofstede, 1980; House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, & Gupta, 2004) or prevalent group-based beliefs contribute to the observed pattern of personality effects. A main objective of the subsequent project is to establish and test cross-cultural generalizability of our findings. For this pupose a series of cross-cultural survey is conducted. Further and in addition, laboratory experiments test potential interaction between isolated personality dimensions, cultural orientations and group-based beliefs under controlled conditions.