Cultural capital is defined as the accumulation of knowledge, behaviors, and skills that a person can tap into to demonstrate one's cultural competence and social status (Bourdieu, 1986). Cultural capital has been well‐understood in social sciences such as sociology and economics for the past decades. Little research has examined the psychological antecedences and consequences of cultural capital at the individual level. Our current work seeks to provide empirical evidence to support the claim that cultural capital (embodied, objective, and institutionalized) can be transformed into economic value. Using a 3 × 3 × 2 (Cultural Capital Conditions × Behavioral Agents × Frames) mixed experimental design, our data showed that under the gain frame rather than the loss frame, the property of people with cultural capital was judged higher than those pretending to have cultural capital, but without real knowledge. Interestingly, this pattern of results only holds true under the embodied cultural capital condition, but did not hold true under the objectified and institutionalized cultural capital conditions.

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知识就是金钱：人们认为文化资本可以转化为经济价值吗？

文化资本被定义为一个人可以用来展示自己的文化能力和社会地位的知识、行为和技能的积累（Bourdieu，1986）。在过去的几十年里，文化资本在社会学和经济学等社会科学中得到了很好的理解。很少有研究考察文化资本在个人层面的心理前因和后果。我们目前的工作旨在提供经验证据来支持文化资本（具体的、客观的和制度化的）可以转化为经济价值的主张。使用 3 × 3 × 2（文化资本条件 × 行为主体 × 框架）混合实验设计，我们的数据显示，在增益框架而不是损失框架下，拥有文化资本的人的财产比那些假装拥有文化资本但没有真正知识的人的评价更高。有趣的是，这种结果模式只在具身文化资本条件下成立，在客观化、制度化的文化资本条件下并不成立。