论文
论文标题：Knowledge about others reduces one’s own sense of anonymity
作者：Shah, Anuj K., LaForest, Michael
期刊：Nature
发表时间：2022/03/02
数字识别码：10.1038/s41586-022-04452-3
摘要：
Social ties often seem symmetric, but they need not be1,2,3,4,5. For example, a person might know a stranger better than the stranger knows them. We explored whether people overlook these asymmetries and what consequences that might have for people’s perceptions and actions. Here we show that when people know more about others, they think others know more about them. Across nine laboratory experiments, when participants learned more about a stranger, they felt as if the stranger also knew them better, and they acted as if the stranger was more attuned to their actions. As a result, participants were more honest around known strangers. We tested this further with a field experiment in New York City, in which we provided residents with mundane information about neighbourhood police officers. We found that the intervention shifted residents’ perceptions of officers’ knowledge of illegal activity, and it may even have reduced crime. It appears that our sense of anonymity depends not only on what people know about us but also on what we know about them.
2022年3月2日，来自美国芝加哥大学的Anuj K. Shah等人在Nature在线发表题为Knowledge about others reduces one’s own sense of anonymity的文章，证实了社会关系中对于对称性假设的过度依赖影响了人们的匿名感，从而也影响了人们的社会行为。
