检验“水稻理论”

Testing the Rice Theory

T.Talhelm等人提出水稻理论,宣称种植水稻的历史造就了强调相互依赖的文化,而种植小麦的历史造就了强调个性独立的文化。这些农业的遗产至今仍然影响着当代人民。他们使用三种心理测验任务测验了中国被试,发现种植水稻的南方人比种植小麦的北方人更为相互依赖,更倾向于整体性思维。水稻理论是否成立有待检验,检验水稻理论是中国心理学家的一个任务。

T.Talhelm et al. proposed the rice theory that a history of farming rice makes cultures more interdependent and farming wheat makes cultures more independent, and these agriculture legacies continue to affect people in the modern world. They used three psychological tests to test Chinese participants and found that rice growing southern China is more interdependent and holistic-thinking than the wheat-growing north. Whether the rice theory is true remains a question and the task of Chinese psychologists is to test it.