Study On Relationship Between Public Implicit Attitude Towards The Police,Procedural Justice Judgment And Cooperation Behavior

Since1990’s, the continual readjustment of social benefits and the emerging of the deep social contradiction bring new crises to the relationship between the citizen and legal authorities such as police. The public uncooperative behavior becomes an increasingly highlighted problem. Thus, how to increase the public cooperation with the police has caused wide public concern in the research field such as Psychology, sociology and jurisprudence. In the western countries, the influence of procedural justice towards cooperation behavior received most attention, but there are few empirical studies involving attitude, especially the impact of implicit attitude on cooperative behavior.This study introduces attitude as a new variable, probes into relationships between public implicit attitude towards police, procedural justice judgments and cooperation behavior on the basis of previous research. In order to attain the research goal, we established research content as below:Study1, we compiled public explicit attitude towards police questionnaire based on early interviews and open questionnaires. Then we randomly selected201citizens in Wuhan city as the subjects to participate in the predicted test. The result showed that this questionnaire turn out to be a good explicit attitude measure tool with good validity and reliability.Study2, we used the between group design, respectively adopted self-compiled "public explicit attitude towards police questionnaire" and the IAT program to measure and public explicit and implicit attitudes toward the police, aiming to examine the relation of this two types of attitudes. Further, the predictive role of the different relation types towards the cooperation behavior was also discussed. The results showed that the public explicit attitudes were not consistent with their implicit attitudes. Explicit attitude can predict the cooperation behavior.Study3, a situation experiment was designed to measure the procedural justice judgments, so as to examine the effects of procedural justice judgments on cooperation behavior. The results suggested that procedural justice judgments can predict cooperation behavior.Study4, base on study three, this study further examine the mediation role of attitude in the relationship between procedural justice judgments and cooperation. The results indicated that explicit attitudes had positive modulation on the relationship between procedural justice judgments and cooperation, while implicit attitudes didn’t work and a mediation factor.