The Influence Of Victim Justice Sensitivity On The Processing Of Interpersonal Trust Information

Interpersonal trust is individual's positive psychological expectations to others' intentions and behaviors,which has great effect on the interpersonal communication and social harmony,it has been paid attention by scholars from different fields.A large number of previous studies have shown that justice perception can affect individual's interpersonal trust,and justice sensitivity is an important personality factor leading to individual differences in justice perception.And as an important component of justice sensitivity,the victim justice sensitivity also plays an important role in the individual's justice perception and interpersonal trust.However,few studies have been carried out to figure out the impact of the victim justice sensitivity on interpersonal trust.Further more,the previous researches on interpersonal trust mostly regard it as personality traits or cooperative behavior,and there is relatively little researches pay attention to the cognitive processing of interpersonal trust.Therefore,this study intends to explore the relationship between victim justice sensitivity and interpersonal trust,and on this basis,the influence of victim justice sensitivity on the processing of interpersonal trust related information is discussed.This study is divided into two parts: Study1 investigated the characteristics of College Students' victim justice sensitivity and interpersonal trust by means of questionnaire survey,and explored the relationship between them;In study 2,two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of victim justice sensitivity on the processing of interpersonal trust related information.Experiment 1 explored the effects of victim justice sensitivity on the attention and memory processing of interpersonal trust information by point detection task and learning-recognition paradigm.In Experiment 2,the modified experimental paradigm was used to investigate the influence of the victim justice sensitivity on the processing of the specific information of the trusted party.The results show that:(1)In victim justice sensitivity,there was no significant difference in demographic variables,such as gender,whether the only child,family location,the profession and so on;In interpersonal trust,there was no significant difference in gender,but there were significant differences in whether the only child,family location and the profession.(2)There is a significant negative correlation between the victim justice sensitivity and interpersonal trust.(3)The subjects who with high victim justice sensitivity had attention bias to the words meaning distrust,but it can not be distinguished from the other negative words.And this phenomenon was not found in subjects who with low victim justice sensitivity.In addition,the two groups had memory bias towards the words meaning distrust and the other negative words,but they can not distinguish between them.(4)The subjects with high victim justice sensitivity had attention vigilance to the words meaning having bad faith,while the subjects with low victim justice sensitivity had difficulty in attention disengagement to them.There was no memory bias in the two groups towards all kinds of the words.