title: Implicit trust between the Uyghur and the Han in Xinjiang, China.
abstract: Trust is a vital lubricant that increases the sense of security in social interactions. In this study, we investigated the intergroup trust between the Uyghur and the Han, the two largest ethnic groups in Xinjiang, China, with a Go/No-Go Association Task. Specifically, we instructed Uyghur and Han participants to respond to ethnic faces (Uyghur vs. Han) and trust/distrust words and measured the strength of the automatic associations between the faces and words for both in-group and out-group pairs. As expected, both ethnic groups showed implicit in-group trust and out-group distrust, but the Han group demonstrated stronger in-group trust and out-group distrust toward the Uyghur than the Uyghur group toward the Han. However, the magnitude of distrust of the Han toward the Uyghur was small to medium as compared with that reported by other intergroup relationship research. In addition, participant geographic location was associated with out-group distrust. These findings offer implications for developing effective strategies to encourage trust between conflicting groups.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America.
authors: Shen
authors: S
authors: Zhang
authors: Miao
authors: M
authors: Xu
authors: Xueting
authors: X
authors: Li
authors: Huizhen
authors: H
authors: Fang
authors: Shengmin
authors: S
authors: Yang
authors: Jia
authors: J
authors: Liu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D035502:Trust; D055815:Young Adult
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