Visual search performance on an lcd monitor: effects of color combination of figure and icon background, shape of icon, and line width of icon border

This study investigated the effects of color combinations for the figure/icon background, icon shape, and line width of the icon border on visual search performance on a liquid crystal display screen. In a circular stimulus array, subjects had to search for a target item which had a diameter of 20 cm and included one target and 19 distractors. Analysis showed that the icon shape significantly affected search performance. The correct response time was significantly shorter for circular icons than for triangular icons, for icon borders with a line width of 3 pixels than for 1 or 2 pixels, and for 2 pixels than for 1 pixel. The color combination also significantly affected the visual search performance: white/yellow, white/blue, black-red, and black/ yellow color combinations for the figure/icon background had shorter correct response times compared to yellow/blue, red/green, yellow/green, and blue/red. However, no effects were found for the line width of the icon border or the icon shape on the error rate. Results have implications for graphics-based design of interfaces, such as for mobile phones, Web sites, and PDAs, as well as complex industrial processes.     

Social axioms and values: a cross‐cultural examination

The relationships between social axioms, general beliefs that people hold about the social world, and values, defined as desirable goals for life, were examined in five cultural groups. Results show that the correlations between social axioms and Schwartz's (1992) values are generally low, suggesting that they represent two distinct types of construct. Based on a structural equation modelling approach, results further show that generally speaking, the five axiom dimensions are related to the value types in a meaningful and interpretable manner, and that these relationships are generally similar across the five cultural groups. Implications of these results and directions for future research are discussed. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

政府与自然的和谐:节约型政府理念中的和谐社会

以新时期节约型政府理念的核心意蕴分析为视角,广义的和谐社会也就是一种政府与自然和谐的社会。其理论内涵的完整内容应既包括政府以及政府引导社会如何改造与利用自然以实现自身存在与发展的需要,也包括政府以及政府引导社会如何改造和完善自身以满足遵循与顺应自然的需要。构建政府与自然和谐的节约路径主要在于树立强化政府的节约意识和建立健全政府的节约制度。     

忽视性阅读障碍的研究概况

首先介绍了忽视性阅读障碍(neglect dyslexia, ND)的概念,随后描述了ND病人在阅读过程中的表现,即衰减效应、词汇效应、词内区分效应、对称效应和词长效应以及保留的语义通达能力。尽管忽视症和ND可以分离,但两者之间有一定联系。文章最后对汉语ND的研究进行了分析和展望,认为其关键问题是阐明汉语ND在多大程度上与拼音文字ND具有可比性。     

时间洞察力的理论研究

对时间洞察力的理论研究进行了总结和回顾,把时间洞察力的观点归纳为八个方面：时间洞察力的发展观、性别观、学业观、生活观、文化观、健康观、人格观及精神病理学观点。认为时间洞察力研究应该把重点放在理论构建和因果关系的探讨上。     

宽恕的心理学研究

文章介绍了宽恕在汉语、圣经和新约中的含义并对宽恕的操作性定义进行了讨论。简要阐述了宽恕研究中常用的三种研究方法——叙事法、问卷法和实验法。最后阐述了共情、责任归因、侵犯的后果及道歉、人际关系、人格、文化背景对宽恕的影响。     

中学生自我概念、学业归因与学业成绩关系的研究

该研究采用问卷法探讨中学生自我概念、学业归因与学业成绩的关系,并分别对初中生和高中生建立了因果关系模型。两模型区别在于：（1）学业成绩对初中生自我概念的影响大于对高中生的;（2）高中生学业自我概念受内部控制、非学业自我概念受未知方控制直接影响。研究还表明：（1）初中生的学业自我概念显著高于高中生的;（2）学业自我概念、一般自我概念与学业成绩高低一致;（3）内部控制源与有势力的他人控制源显著相关。     

条件反射性免疫增强的研究进展

综述了国内外研究条件反射性免疫增强的主要成果;介绍了相关实验所使用的刺激物,观测的指标和实验程序;探讨了一些脑区如下丘脑、岛叶皮质,神经通道如交感和迷走神经,多种神经内分泌激素如β-内啡肽、干扰素以及白细胞介素如IL-1等在条件反射性免疫增强中的介导作用     

产品评价的来源国效应

自Schooler（1965）开始对来源国效应进行实证研究之后,来源国效应引起了人们的广泛关注。学者们分别在个人购买和工业购买领域,采用调查、实验、联合分析、元分析及其它方法（如深度访问法）进行了大量的研究。研究结果表明,来源国效应是一种普遍存在的现象,但是受到多种因素的影响,这些因素包括其它外在产品属性、消费者的知识背景或经验、产品属性信息、产品类别以及消费者的民族差异。为了解释来源国效应这一现象,研究者提出了多种假说或模型,代表性的是信号假说、独立属性假说、概构模型和弹性模型     

Working memory and the guidance of visual attention: Consonance-driven orienting

Two experiments investigated the potential role of the content of working memory in guiding visual attention. Experiment 1 showed that maintaining a shape in working memory resulted in a decisive preference for moving attention to the same shape in the background when those shapes were task irrelevant. Experiment 2 showed a similar preference for words that were semantically related to an item held in working memory. We suggest that keeping an item active in working memory automatically results in a tendency for attention to be “attracted” to stimuli that are related to that item either visually or semantically.