Data Collection via Online Platforms: Challenges and Recommendations for Future Research

Online platforms such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) are increasingly used by researchers to collect survey and experimental data. Yet, such platforms often represent a tumultuous terrain for both researchers and reviewers. Researchers have to navigate the complexities of obtaining representative samples from online participant cohorts, ensuring data quality, ethically incentivizing participant engagement, and maintaining transparency. Reviewers, on the other hand, have to navigate the complexities of evaluating the efficacy of such data collection and execution efforts in answering important research questions. In order to provide clarity to these issues, this article provides researchers and reviewers with a series of recommendations for effectively executing and evaluating data collection via online platforms, respectively.     

创业团队目标导向、内隐协调与创造力的关系研究

基于目标导向理论和内隐认知理论,探讨了团队目标导向对团队创造力的影响,以及内隐协调在其中所起的作用。通过分析参加浙江省大学生挑战杯创业大赛的100个团队的有效数据,得出团队学习目标导向和团队绩效趋向目标导向能够正向影响团队创造力,团队绩效规避目标导向能够负向影响团队创造力;团队学习目标导向和团队绩效趋向目标导向对内隐协调产生显著正向影响;内隐协调分别在团队学习目标导向和团队绩效趋向目标导向与团队创造力的关系中起完全中介作用的结果。     

从古代小说看道教世俗化过程中神仙形象的演变

神仙形象源自于早期神话和信仰中的"神"的形象.因此,早期的道教神仙被描绘为生活在远方异域,与凡人完全不同的特殊群体.随着道教神仙观念的发展,道教的神仙形象也在逐渐"人性化":神仙逐渐摆脱了过去的神秘色彩和"非人"特征,较多地吸收了"人"的形象特征.宋元以后,这一趋势变得更为显著.神仙形象中"神"的特征进一步减弱,而"人"的因素、特别是普通人的特征日益明显.我们通过对不同时期中国古代小说中神仙形象的比较,可以清晰地发现这一变化.在这篇论文中,我们也试图探讨道教的世俗化趋势对神仙形象的影响以及不同的神仙观念在中国古代小说的神仙形象中留下的痕迹.     

Perceptual fluency effects in judgments of creativity and beauty: creative objects are perceived fluently yet they are visually complex

ABSTRACT

Perceptual fluency typically has a positive influence on aesthetic evaluations of beauty, but few studies have examined its influence on creativity evaluations. Creativity has two facets, originality and quality. If creativity judgments involve estimating product originality, such judgments may be associated with perceptual disfluency, while product quality may be associated with perceptual fluency. We examined the relationship between perceptual fluency and judgments of creativity and beauty across seven experiments. Creativity judgments were affected by most perceptual fluencysources. We observed a highly-fluent-is-beautiful-and-creative relation when testing repeated exposure and figure-ground contrast. Prototypicality displayed a high-fluency–is-beautiful relation, with creativity judgments unaffected. Visual complexity displayed a consistent disfluent-is-creative effect, with mixed results for beauty. For creativity (but not beauty) evaluations, increased saliency of visual complexity led to discounting fluent-is-creative effects, supporting the hypothesis that there are at least two fluency pathways to creativity judgments that take both originality and quality into account.     

读徐梵澄译《薄伽梵歌论》中的案语提示

《薄伽梵歌》着意所在综合,即"究天人","通古今",所得必是一大和谐,这也是"精神"的主旨。而人类之精神事业,落实必在行业瑜伽,即有为于世间,盖由于"人能弘道,非道弘人"。这事业犹如远征,需要引路之人,也即天神降世应身者,吾华称之为圣人。在圣人眼中,人皆得平等,因为每一个人都潜在是"天神之子",他们有能力为精神的进步、也即"变化气质"作出努力。