一、文化心理取向与社会群体的凝聚 社会心理学将“群体凝聚力”定义为“使成员保持在群体内的合力”。一个小群体凝聚力之强弱可用“社会测量学”的方法进行测定。但跨文化的群体凝聚力的研究采用这种方法操作起来有较大的困难,目前似乎还未看到令人满意的尝试。因此,我们对社会群体凝聚力的研究仍不能不采用间接的方法,即强调文艺作品、神话故事、宗教经典等文献的记录以及观察一般 I. Cultural Psychological Orientation and Cohesion of Social Groups Social psychology defines “group cohesion” as “the resultant force of keeping members within a group.” The strength of the cohesion of a small group can be measured by the method of “social measurement.” However, the study of intercultural group cohesion has great difficulty in using this method and it seems that it has not yet seen a satisfactory attempt. Therefore, we still can not but adopt the indirect method to study the cohesion of social groups, that is, emphasize the recording and observation of literary and artistic works, myths and religious classics, etc.