人呵 缘何屡屡上当受骗——受骗者心理面面观

骗术,是披着精巧迷人伪装的“机智”——一种基于假、丑、恶,于社会无益的“邪智”。大千世界,为何会有人屡屡上当受骗呢?除了骗术“高明、狡诈”外,主要是受骗者心理有隙可钻。这些心理上的“空隙”有:——贪小心理。毋需讳言,许多人上当受骗,均     

现代迷信与大学生心理健康

一 所谓现代迷信,是指在现代社会将封建迷信、骗术、巫术或伪气功等混为一体,盗用一些科学的名词,而其语言和内容又不科学的歪理邪说,是一种具有短暂性、爆发性、群众性和流行性特点的现代反科学思潮.     

相业骗术举隅——相术的文化批判之五

中国古代相术缘起于先民对人生命运的关注与探索,最初的相士,多数都能恪守抑恶扬善、引人向上的宗旨和至诚守廉、治生济贫的职业道德.但在后来的发展演化过程中,越来越多身分复杂的人带着各不相同的目的进人相术行业.其中一部分人完全是借看相手段欺世盗名,牟利敛财.这些人无视相士应有的职业道德,不惜挖空心思,绞尽脑汁,采用种种江湖骗术来招睐顾客,获取钱财.这些人的参与,使本来就缺乏科学基础的相术变得更加神秘虚假、荒唐无稽.下面介绍两种当今流行的相业骗术,我们由此可见江湖术士弄虚玩巧手段之一斑.……     

人们为什么去看相算命?

尽管看相算命是一种迷信活动,是一种骗术,它的理论是唯心的,形而上学、不堪一击的,但在现实中我们却看到,在城乡各地,都有不少看相算命者在活动、在游荡,也有不少人在他们摊前光顾,最终心甘情愿地给他们掏出钱来。那么,人们为什么去看相算命,是何原因促使人们去看相     

应加强气功组织的管理

《科学与无神论》杂志社: 你们好！ “法轮功”极力宣传一套愚弄群众的江湖骗术和歪理邪说,危害很大。这种邪说不清除,正常的预防、医疗、保健工作就无法进行。我虽没有修炼“法轮功”,但我认为骗人的不只“法轮功”,还有其它门类气功,在取缔法轮功组织     

″测字″质疑

笔者近日在某地级市一个民间图书批发市场购得2003年1月中国经济出版社出版的<姓名与人生>一书,楣题为:"测字怪谈",乍看起来,以为"测字怪谈",是想揭露测字骗术呢!再从其内容一看,原来是大兴封建迷信之道.其肩题"由姓名知健康,由姓名知性格,由姓名知事业,由姓名知婚姻"已经非常透剔地告诉了读者该书的宗旨.     

李洪志诋毁科学是为了神化自己

李洪志的“法轮大法”宣传了一套歪理邪说,欺骗世人,妄图达到他不可告人的政治目的。玩弄科学辞藻,放肆地反对科学,是李洪志神化自己,推行他的“法轮大法”的一个重要骗术。 李洪志信奉这样一套处世哲学:故事编得越离奇,牛皮吹得越大,越能唬人骗人。他在到处讲法时,大谈从粒子、分子到宇宙,从植物、动物到人类,从自然界、     

不战而屈人之兵

楚汉垓下之战中,刘邦命人在江边用糖水写了四个大字“项羽自刎”,结果引来无数蚂蚁竞相舔食。当项羽突围至此看到这四个由蚂蚁组成的大字时,以为是天意如此,便拔剑自刎而死。这是较早利用骗术为战争服务的典型事例。在近现代战争史上,这样的例子更是屡见不鲜,它常常能迷惑敌军,瓦解敌军斗志,甚至使敌军丧失战斗力,从而达到不战而屈人之兵的目的。     

“测字”质疑

笔者近日在某地级市一个民间图书批发市场购得2003年1月中国经济出版社出版的《姓名与人生》一书,楣题为:“测字怪谈”,乍看起来,以为“测字怪谈”,是想揭露测字骗术呢!再从其内容一看,原来是大兴封建迷信之道。其肩题“由姓名知健康,由姓名知性格,由姓名知事业,由姓名知婚姻”已经非常透剔地告诉了读者该书的宗旨。     

算命者的“攻心术”

“算命”、“卜卦”等是一种骗人的封建迷信活动,近几年来,原来已被扫进历史垃圾堆的“算命”、“卜卦”等封建迷信活动又沉渣泛起,甚至还堂而皇之地摆到旅游景点和街道边上来,被人们戏称为“摆在大街上的精神垃圾”。 迷信的东西始终是假的,其目的在于骗钱。假的东西要哄得人信,惟有靠骗。据笔者的观察,算命者的骗术其实很简单,甚至荒唐可笑,其方法主要是凭借一双敏锐的“职业”眼力,对求卜者的相     

"Psychotherapy" versus "treatment"

Presents a comment on "Psychological treatments" by D. H. Barlow. Barlow proposed that we distinguish between the terms "treatment" and "psychotherapy." The author believes that not only is the distinction unnecessary, but that its implications could have negative consequences for the field of clinical psychology. It is the proposed distinguishing feature that treatments are "specifically tailored to the pathological process that is causing the impairment and distress" that is most problematic. Clinical psychology does not need a distinction that further exacerbates the split between researchers and practitioners.     

"Enmeshment" and "Fusion"

The paper examines two related concepts utilized by two different schools of family therapy. Any family seen to be "enmeshed" is also seen as "fused," and vice versa. The difference in the level of focus, on the "system containing the individuals" (structural) or the "individual in the system" (fusion), determines the difference in therapeutic approach of these two schools.     

“对的”与“好的”

什么是“对的”,和对它的证立,是道德哲学中具有争议性的核心问题,也是效用主义和道义论间的主要差异之所在。统合效用主义对于“好的就是对的”这个陈述有一套完整周延的说法。而道义论对这个问题的证立不够周延或没有足够的说服力。     

"本体论"与"伦理学"--形而上学的两个向度

形而上学有两个密切相关的内在向度,就是本体论向度与伦理学向度.在哲学史上,哲学家们之所以在"追求形而上学"的同时,又总是"反形而上学",并非是人们的形上本性出了问题,而是因为人们总是将形而上学视为单纯的"一维性",总是用一个向度来取代或遮蔽另一个向度.而所谓的"后形而上学思想",也并不是消解了形而上学,而是指形而上学从"本体论向度"转向了"伦理学向度".     

从"管制"到"平衡"--政府与公众理想关系模式的构建及其制度化

论文从行政民主的角度探讨政府与公众之间的理想关系模式及其制度化构建过程 ,将我国在改革之前的政府与公众模式概括为管制模式。论文指出 ,在制度变迁的过程中 ,这一模式日益受到挑战。而在新的制度环境下 ,我国政府与公众的关系模式应该是平衡模式。这一模式的制度化措施包括培育自主的市民社会 ,赋予公众以独立的活动空间 ;促进行政公开 ,建立一个开放负责的政府 ;推进行政法建设 ,抑制行政恣意     

"石狮"、"风水"与"吉祥"

谁都知道,在古老的中国,不管是衙门、宫殿、庙宇的门前,还是豪宅、大户人家的门口,人们都能看到摆着一对石狮。据说,这对石狮子在许多中国人的心目中,它不但是一种气派的象征,而且还是一种被人认为是好的“吉祥物”。如今,旧时的衙门没有了,但遗留下来的宫殿、庙宇的门前,其中有些石狮仍有保存。然而,想像不到的是,这号称“吉祥物”的石狮今天却开始“走”进某些党政机关的大门口,它们(石狮)在那里时时都在保护着这些政府要员“平平安安”、“吉祥如意”。这不仅使我联想起一些极端的报道,有些政府官员为升迁,请算命先生定位,用风水术为政府…     

PREFERRING "HOUSEWIVES" TO "FEMINISTS"

Four studies are described outlining the favorability of attitudes toward women. In Study 1, participants indicated their attitudes toward women and men and their construal of the term "women". The results revealed that women were evaluated more favorably than men, but that male right-wing authoritarians (RWAs) who construed women as referring primarily to feminists were least favorable in their attitudes. In Study 2, participants indicated their attitudes toward both "housewives" and "feminists". The results revealed that feminists were evaluated less favorably than housewives, and that the most negative attitudes toward feminists were expressed by authoritarian men. Study 3 revealed that high-RWA males held more negative symbolic beliefs concerning feminists (i.e., beliefs that feminists failed to promote participants'values) and that these beliefs accounted for variation in attitudes among high RWAs and much of the RWA-attitude relation. Finally, Study 4 revealed that high RWAs perceived greater value dissimilarity between them-selves and feminists. The implications of the findings for future research are discussed.     

"Us" and "Them":

Abstract: In the Aristotelian tradition, politics is a matter of public deliberation over questions of justice and injustice. The Bush administration's response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been uniformly hostile to this notion, and it has instead promoted a jingoistic politics of self‐assertion by an America largely identified with the executive branch of its government. This is doubly disturbing, as the executive branch has sought to free itself from international law, multinational commitments, and domestic judicial regulation, even as it has sought to validate itself by demonizing its enemies. This essay draws out the disturbing echoes here of Carl Schmitt's work of the 1920s, in particular of Schmitt's conception of the sovereign as the ungrounded ground of the law and the political as the site of mortal conflict between friend and enemy. The essay argues that Schmitt's position in the twenties, for all of its evident problems, is superior to that of Bush, Wolfowitz, and Ashcroft in at least two senses: Schmitt condemns the idea of waging war for profit and recognizes that such wars will often be disguised as moral crusades waged against the “inhuman”; and he acknowledges that claiming to fight a war for humanity denies one's enemies their humanity, leaving them open to torture and even extermination.