关键词: 动机性推理, 中医药文化, 文化认同, 信任

Abstract:

Patient's cultural identity with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) may lead them to motivational reasoning in medical reasoning, get different reasoning conclusions from the same information. By comparing participants’ performance on self-designed medical valuation questions, it was found that on the questions with positive TCM clues, participants with high-level of culture identification of TCM give higher valuation and on the questions with negative TCM clues, participants with low-level culture identification of TCM give higher valuation, and participants were more inclined to believe that the feedback information inconsistent with their preconceived beliefs was false and that the feedback information consistent with their preconceived beliefs was true. The results show that people will selectively search, construct and receive relevant information because of the cultural identity of TCM.

Key words: motivated reasoning, Traditional Chinese Medicine, culture identity, trust