Abstract: In order to testify the hypothesis that gender differences in trust were associated with sense of control, the present study investigated the interaction between gender and sense of control on trusting behavior. The experiment adopted the classic Faith Game paradigm and manipulated participants′ sense of control by designing two experimental conditions which differed in the orders of decision making. Results supported the prediction that there was a significant interaction between gender and sense of control on participants′ trusting behavior. In the low-sense-of-control condition, male participants were more trusting of unknown partners than female participants, which replicated the findings of previous studies. Such gender difference disappeared when sense of control was increased in the high-sense-of-control condition, indicating that sense of control mediated gender difference in trusting behavior.

摘要： 采用实验的方法,考察性别及控制感对中国大学生信任行为的影响,探讨造成信任行为性别差异的原因。实验采用经典的信念游戏范式及其变式,通过改变决定者与分配者的决策顺序操作被试的控制感水平。实验结果表明,在低控制感条件下,男性比女性表现出更多的信任行为;通过实验操作提高个体控制感水平后,信任行为的性别差异则消失,性别和控制感对信任行为的影响具有交互作用。该结果验证了研究假设,控制感是影响信任行为性别差异的重要因素。