One-year follow-up analysis of cognitive and psychological consequences among survivors of the Wenchuan earthquake

The catastrophic Wenchuan earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale occurred on May 12, 2008 in the West of the Sichuan basin in China and caused severe damage. A project was undertaken to examine the cognitive and psychological effects one year after the disaster among 2080 individuals in the local area. We evaluated the influence of gender, age, education level, and ethnic group on five aspects: work satisfaction, living satisfaction, health self-perception, psychological pressure, and psychological recovery. Male subjects had a better performance in all five aspects, which indicated that women were more affected. Subjects of different ethnic groups showed significantly different attitudes with respect to psychological pressure and psychological recovery. Significant differences for all the five aspects were also found in education level and age. The results showed that older people and those with a lower education level probably had more psychological problems. There were significant correlations between work satisfaction and living satisfaction, living satisfaction and health self-perception, living satisfaction and psychological recovery, and psychological pressure and psychosocial recovery. Living satisfaction and education level were significant predictors of psychological pressure. For psychological recovery, significant predictors were living satisfaction, age, work satisfaction, education level, and gender. The study findings indicated that government programs should provide more support for females, older people, those with a lower education level, and those in lower living conditions. Attention should be given not only to the psychological effects on each victim, but also to related issues such as work and living conditions to promote psychological wellbeing. Limitations of this study are addressed.     

Fitts’ law holds for pointing movements under conditions of restricted visual feedback

Fitts’ law robustly predicts the time required to move rapidly to a target. However, it is unclear whether Fitts’ law holds for visually guided actions under visually restricted conditions. We tested whether Fitts’ law applies under various conditions of visual restriction and compared pointing movements in each condition. Ten healthy participants performed four pointing movement tasks under different visual feedback conditions, including full-vision (FV), no-hand-movement (NM), no-target-location (NT), and no-vision (NV) feedback conditions. The movement times (MTs) for each task exhibited highly linear relationships with the index of difficulty (r² > .96). These findings suggest that pointing movements follow Fitts’ law even when visual feedback is restricted or absent. However, the MTs and accuracy of pointing movements decreased for difficult tasks involving visual restriction.     

现代性和虚无主义

西方文化语境中的虚无主义是一种精神世界的价值虚空状态,是现代性的特征。列斐伏尔彰显现代性的虚无主义本质,从虚无主义切入现代性,从虚无中看到了希望,认为现代既是虚无主义的时代,也将是新生的时代。这对于我们认清自己的现代性建构道路及目标具有重要启迪意义,当代中国以人为本、和谐社会等核心价值理念能帮助人摆脱虚无主义。     

文化生活脚本理论及其研究进展

为了解释人对于生活事件的回忆出现的记忆隆起现象,出现了文化生活脚本理论。文化生活脚本是文化上共享、关于重要生活事件发生时间及顺序的知识。它是规范事件的图式,可以用来检索和叙述个人过去经历的过程。文章综述了文化脚本的研究及其进展,并对进一步的研究提出了设想。     

"嫁主里面的人"——乡村基督徒姻亲结合的宗教社会学观

乡村社会出现越来越多基督徒与基督徒的姻亲结合,我们通过基督教经典<圣经>投射的神与基督徒、基督徒家庭结构、婚姻行为、婚姻观念的统计,结合婚礼发挥的姻亲结合认同、基督徒群体团结的功能分析,探析基督徒姻亲结合表达的宗教及社会需求所在:乡村基督徒姻亲结合,是信徒构建神圣与世俗秩序的宗教需求,同时,宗教关系的血亲化、家族化,满足了作为基督徒的村民对熟人社会再造的社会需求.     

人类道德的历史形态论析

马克思主义的社会形态理论是理解道德历史形态的钥匙。五形态论和三形态论都是唯物史观分析人类社会发展史得出的正确结论。相应地有道德发展三形态论和五形态论,三形态论更符合道德的内在精神。以此为理论基础进行分析,现实社会主义道德处于物的依赖关系为基础的人的独立性的单子式的道德发展阶段,虽然其起点比当时资本主义还低,但社会主义道德以其科学的指导思想、先进的政治制度和高尚的价值追求为落后国家摆脱整体性道德、超越单子式道德、建立和发展人的自由全面发展的和谐型道德开辟了广阔的前景。     

Exemplar models as a mechanism for performing Bayesian inference

Probabilistic models have recently received much attention as accounts of human cognition. However, most research in which probabilistic models have been used has been focused on formulating the abstract problems behind cognitive tasks and their optimal solutions, rather than on mechanisms that could implement these solutions. Exemplar models are a successful class of psychological process models in which an inventory of stored examples is used to solve problems such as identification, categorization, and function learning. We show that exemplar models can be used to perform a sophisticated form of Monte Carlo approximation known as importance sampling and thus provide a way to perform approximate Bayesian inference. Simulations of Bayesian inference in speech perception, generalization along a single dimension, making predictions about everyday events, concept learning, and reconstruction from memory show that exemplar models can often account for human performance with only a few exemplars, for both simple and relatively complex prior distributions. These results suggest that exemplar models provide a possible mechanism for implementing at least some forms of Bayesian inference.     

Moderating effect of Zhong Yong on the relationship between creativity and innovation behaviour

The present study examined the moderating effect of Zhong Yong on the relationship between perceived creativity and innovation behaviour in Chinese companies. A total of 273 paired questionnaires were collected with employee self-rated creativity and Zhong Yong and supervisor-rated innovation behaviour. The results show that for people higher on Zhong Yong, their creativity was not correlated with innovation behaviour; for people less immersed in Zhong Yong, this correlation is significant. This finding provides a new insight into the effects of Zhong Yong on the creativity-innovation behaviour transformation processes. The implications for future research are also discussed.     

一致的先前知识对类别学习影响机制探讨

探讨一致的先前知识对类别学习的影响,包括2个实验。被试是112名大学生,分别探讨不同实验任务和不同项目呈现时间引发的机械特征在类别学习中的重要程度和加工程度不同的情况下先前知识对类别学习的影响。结果表明:(1)在实验任务为项目类别归属判断任务时,机械特征重要程度低,主题特征与机械特征在学习上存在竞争关系;在实验任务为项目类别归属及记忆任务时,机械特征重要程度高,主题特征与机械特征在学习上存在促进关系。(2)在限制步速呈现项目时,机械特征加工程度低,主题特征与机械特征在学习上存在竞争关系;而在自定步速呈现项目时,机械特征加工程度高,主题特征与机械特征在学习上不存在竞争关系。     

阿伦·奈斯的深层生态学思想

阿伦·奈斯开创了当代环境哲学研究的一个全新领域。他不仅为深层生态学建立了较为完整的框架体系,而且也为深层生态学的发展提供了重要的理论基础(生态智慧T)。对于深层生态学的研究者来说,不系统地认识奈斯的思想就无法深刻地理解深层生态学。