The Cultural Category of Cooperation: A Cultural Consensus Model Analysis for China and the United States
通过文化共识模型分析，研究中美两国人们对合作情境的分类是否一致，揭示合作作为文化范畴的本质，对跨文化合作研究有参考价值。
We provide evidence that cooperation is a cultural category, and that what it means to cooperate is culturally conditioned. We use a cultural consensus model analysis to assess which types of situations people categorize as cooperation and whether these categorizations are consistent within and across China and the United States. The data support revisiting the role of cognition in mediating cooperative behavior and the means by which culture shapes behavior. The data also support broadening research attention to multiple aspects of cooperation within the same theory, generating new research on reciprocity, and rethinking how key behaviors, such as competition and helping, relate to cooperation.