Psychological Development and Education ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (4): 363-370.

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The Experimental Research on College Students' Implicit Cognition of Wisdom

CHEN Hao-bin1, WANG Feng-yan2   

  1. 1. School of Education, Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013;
    2. School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097
  • Online:2014-07-15 Published:2014-07-15

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Abstract: In order to explore college students' implicit cognition of wisdom, 55 colleges students were selected as participants in the experiments of Implicit Association Test (IAT) and Single Category Implicit Association Test (SC-IAT). In experiment 1, participants reacted quickly when human wise people were associated with words indicating good morality and humane quality and natural wise people were associated with words indicating high intelligence; it proved that participants had the implicit cognitive construction of "human wise people have good moral-humane quality and natural wise people have high intelligence". In experiment 2, participants reacted more quickly when words indicating good morality and high intelligence were associated with wise people than when they were associated with foolish people; it proved that participants had the implicit cognitive construction of "the wise people possess good moral- humane quality as well as high intelligence". And the implicit cognitive effect of participants with different gender and major showed significantly difference in two experiments. In all, the two experiments revealed that wisdom is the integration of good moral - humane quality and high intelligence; meanwhile, college students' learning and experience affect their implicit cognition of wisdom.

Key words: wisdom, the wise people, intelligence, morality, Implicit Association Test (IAT)

CLC Number: 

  • B844.3

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