纵向研究的取样和测量

本文对心理发展中最重要的研究类型之一,纵向研究的取样和测量问题进行了讨论.指出了研究者在使用纵向研究时可能出现的问题,并提出了相应的解决方法.     

LTP和记忆相关性研究新进展

本文对近年来在ＬＴＰ和记忆的相关性研究从基因和分子水平上作了一个粗略的回顾。可以看出ＬＴＰ与记忆的形成有着许多共同点和高度的一致性,因此ＬＴＰ是研究记忆机制一个极好的模型。     

娜塔莉·戴维斯与历史人类学的理论和实践

美国历史学家娜塔莉·戴维斯一直致力于历史人类学的实践,她从《法国近代早期的社会与文化》到《马丁·盖尔归来》,再到《16世纪法国的礼物》,将人类学的方法运用到法国近代早期史的研究中。同时,她也对历史人类学的理论进行了反思,认为人类学为历史学家提供了新的路径和可能性。本文就戴维斯的历史人类学的理论和实践作一个梳理。     

陈荣捷和他的朱熹研究

陈荣捷是著名美籍华裔学者 ,他从二十世纪六十年代开始研究朱熹 ,先后出版这方面的专著五本及大量论文 ,成为与钱穆齐名的朱熹研究权威。本文回顾了陈荣捷研究朱熹的学术经历 ,探讨了陈先生观察和研究朱熹的独特角度和研究方法     

论开展"公民道德"的教育和研究

本文指出"公民道德"教育在我国以往的伦理学研究、道德教育中未能受到重视,强调了当前开展"公民道德"教育和研究的必要性,并对"公民道德"的含义、"公民道德"的基本规范等进行了较为全面的论述.     

前意识模型的提出和大学生情绪——心境的实验研究

本文首先介绍了内隐记忆研究的过程分离程序（ＰＤＰ）的独立模型和附着模型,提出了前意识模型的基本构想。实验以５０名大学生为被拭,考察了大学生的情绪－心境状况及其性别差异。结果表明：大学生对不同维度的情绪性词汇的敏感性有所不同;前意识模型以前意识为中介,可反映意识与无意识的动态关系。     

广告心理学中的眼动研究和发展趋势

通过眼动分析可以比较深入地考察人们在观看广告时的心理活动。早在二十世纪二十年代国外已经有人进行了这方面的研究。本文对国外的广告心理学的眼动研究进行了较为全面的回顾．同时对这个领域的研究现状和发展趋势进行了简要的评述与展望。     

大五人格和工作绩效相关性研究的进展

人格和工作绩效关系的探究正成为研究者关注的主题。本文围绕人格对工作绩效的预测力、影响人格和绩效的中介变量、人格与关系绩效、人格与管理绩效等方面,对大五人格和工作绩效二者的相关性研究进行了回顾。     

国际关系伦理学:研究对象、内容和方法

本文将初步探讨国际关系伦理学的定义以及主要议题。国际关系伦理学是一门跨学科的学问,并且是国际关系学中的主要分支。国家的义务和责任构成了它的主题。随着新的国际关系的转型,国际关系伦理学的研究重点也会随着改变。本文概述了其主要研究手段,以期引起对这门新学科的兴趣。     

关于地域宗教史研究的若干思考──兼评王荣国著《福建佛教史》

本文对地域宗教史的研究基本方向及方法等问题进行了初步探讨,认为地域宗教与全国性宗教通史不同,它拥有不替代的地位和功能。地域宗教史的学术主题是宗教发展地域特殊性的探索,即地域宗教历时性发展中所特有的规律性。文章提出了独到见解。     

Defensiveness and Defense Mechanisms

This introduction to the Journal of Personality's special issue on the topic of defense mechanisms raises the question of why defenses have been largely overlooked in personality research. Although defenses were originally discussed in the context of psychopathology, for the past 60 years psychodynamically oriented psychologists have understood that defenses play an important part in normal psychological development. Recently, psychologists outside the field of personality have incorporated the ideas of unconscious mental processes and of defenses into their research programs. In this issue, personality researchers discuss their ideas about defense mechanisms, organized around three topical areas: current conceptualizations of defense, the measurement of defense mechanisms, and the integration of defense mechanisms into personality research. The issue concludes with a commentary on these articles and provides suggestions for future work.     

Coping mechanisms, stressful events and suicidal behavior among youth admitted to juvenile justice and child welfare services

This study examines the relationship between coping mechanisms and suicide attempts among 84 adolescents in the Quebec youth residential services. A new measure based on in-depth interviews is used to identify coping mechanisms. The suicidal youths used fewer adequate coping mechanisms than nonsuicidal youths when faced with comparable stressful events. Negative cognitive reframing, anger, and blaming others were more frequently reported by the suicidal youths. Contrary to certain theoretical conceptions, coping mechanisms were not stable and varied according to the context of the suicidal crisis. These findings indicate the usefulness of this approach to measure coping mechanisms and support the importance of programs aimed at developing coping skills for suicide prevention.     

Alcoholism,Aging, and Cognition: A Review of Evidence for Shared or Independent Impairments

Little is known about the combined effects of aging and alcoholism on cognitive function, in spite of the potential importance of this knowledge. Studies reported to date have focused on whether aging and alcoholism have shared mechanisms (i.e., the premature aging hypothesis) or independent mechanisms. Most have concluded that the effects of aging and alcoholism on cognition operate through independent mechanisms. However, there are reasons to doubt this conclusion. Many of the studies were not optimally designed to discover shared mechanisms because they used a limited range of ages, included several different groups in their analyses, or had low statistical power. Furthermore, interpretation of the patterns of main effects and interactions between aging and alcoholism is not straightforward. Assumptions must be made about the nature of the impairments in order to interpret the data. This review uses several theories of cognitive aging as an organizing heuristic for interpreting the extant data on aging, cognition, and alcoholism. Some potential shared mechanisms for cognitive deficits in aging and alcoholism are identified, such as information processing speed and proactive interference in working memory. In contrast, some potential independent mechanisms are also identified, such as decay from working and long-term memory. These mechanisms should be used as a base to guide necessary further research.     

Neural Network Models and Mechanisms of Strategy Development

The focus of this paper is mechanisms that may be responsible for intellectual and developmental differences in the cognitive strategies of typical and atypical children, including those with mental retardation. The discussion of these mechanisms is based on behavioral experiments on external memory strategies and on a set of neural network models designed for these tasks. Following the review of the external memory research, the rationale for using neural network models, how they have been used in other research, and their specific application to intellectual and developmental differences in external memory, including the results of several simulations, are reviewed. This is followed by a discussion of the mechanisms of intellectual differences and developmental change included in the models and some challenges for this type of modeling. Neural network modeling is discussed as an asset to research on cognitive development.     

Moral judgments, emotions and the utilitarian brain

The investigation of the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying the moral mind is of paramount importance for understanding complex human behaviors, from altruism to antisocial acts. A new study on patients with prefrontal damage provides key insights on the neurobiology of moral judgment and raises new questions on the mechanisms by which reason and emotion contribute to moral cognition.     

Conceptual constraints and mechanisms in children's selective learning

Although we can support Heyes’ call for more research on mechanisms, we disagree that the problem has been ignored as Heyes suggests. We also doubt that basic learning mechanisms are alone sufficient to account for the broad range of findings in the selective social learning literature. Although phylogenetically shared learning mechanisms must support selective social learning, we believe that they must also be guided by top‐down conceptual considerations that may be special to humans. Research to date has been focused on establishing the boundary conditions on selective social learning, with the goal of making generalizations that will constrain theorizing about the character of that special knowledge. This is critical to our understanding of both why and how selective social learning manifests in children.     

The Identification and Modification of Defense Mechanisms in Counseling

This article suggests considerations and strategies for identifying and modifying a client's defense mechanisms in counseling. A systematic approach to a client's mechanisms of defense contributes to therapeutic gain. Inappropriate counselor responses intensify an individual's defenses and undermine the counseling relationship. Definitions of individual defenses and indicators for identifying the mechanisms are provided. A literature review focuses on the counseling implications of the defenses. The process of defense mechanism modification is illustrated through a case example.     

Honoring the Past and Looking to the Future: Updates on Seminal Behavior Therapy Publications on Etiology and Mechanisms of Change

This is the introduction to the first of two special issues in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. The goal of this issue is to pay tribute to prior seminal Behavior Therapy publications on etiology and mechanisms of change, to provide an updated review of important topics covered by these papers, and to make recommendations for the future. Each invited paper highlights a particular Behavior Therapy publication’s contribution to our understanding and also provides an updated review or meta-analysis on the topic of the original paper. The topics covered here include mechanisms of etiology such as preparedness, reinforcement, and control. In terms of papers on mechanisms of change, we cover mechanisms related to extinction including fear activation, within- and between-session extinction, safety behaviors, and variables related to imagery. In addition, we examine principles related to generalization of learning and optimizing the impact of homework. With the two special issues of Behavior Therapy, we hope to inspire additional research and discussion.     

The how and the when of the social cure: A conceptual model of group- and individual-level mechanisms linking social identity to health and well-being

In this article, we aim at theoretical specification and integration of mechanisms proposed within the Social Identity Approach to Health and Well-being. We differentiate group-level and individual-level effects of shared social identity by distinguishing three different aspects: individual identification, group identification, and individually perceived group identification. We discuss specific group-level mechanisms (i.e., mutual social support and collective self-efficacy) and individual level-mechanisms (i.e., attribution and appraisal processes regarding stressors and resources) for each of the three aspects. A core conclusion is that the positive effects of shared social identity on health and well-being crucially depend on its close relationship with social support, and that although social support is an interindividual phenomenon, it is intraindividual mechanisms—attribution and appraisal—that shape the psychological partnership between social identity and social support. Therefore, we put special emphasis on cross-level interactions between group- and individual-level mechanisms, which have been widely neglected in earlier research.     

Walking and Running on the Circular Treadmill: Transition Speed and Podokinetic Aftereffects

The author compared 10 participants' self-selected walk-to-run transition speeds on a standard treadmill with those on a circular treadmill. The speed of the outer limb at walk-to-run transition on the circular treadmill and on the standard treadmill were very similar. Adaptive aftereffects from running and walking on the circular treadmill were also similar. When asked to step in place without vision, all participants inadvertently turned in circles following walking or running on the treadmill. The results of the present study suggest that the mechanisms controlling walk-to-run transitions are similar for the standard and circular treadmills and demonstrate the robust generalizability of locomotor aftereffects from running to walking. Adaptive control of speed, form, and direction may therefore share similar mechanisms for walking and running.