Whose side are you on? Relational orientations and their impacts on side‐taking among Dutch and Chinese employees

Informal relationships often influence employees who intervene in an interpersonal conflict between colleagues. We investigate and report the effects of relational orientations (reciprocity orientation and communal orientation) on employee preference of choosing sides between an acquaintance and a friend in a workplace dispute in The Netherlands and China. A scenario study was conducted among 104 Dutch and 105 Chinese employees. As hypothesized, the results indicate that employees, especially Dutch employees, with an interest‐concerned reciprocity orientation tend to side with the acquaintance who has a greater potential to return the favour. By contrast, employees, especially Chinese, with a sharing‐concerned communal orientation tend to side with their workplace friend. Explanations and implications of the findings are discussed.     

Object memory and change detection: dissociation as a function of visual and conceptual similarity

People often fail to detect a change between two visual scenes, a phenomenon referred to as change blindness. This study investigates how a post-change object's similarity to the pre-change object influences memory of the pre-change object and affects change detection. The results of Experiment 1 showed that similarity lowered detection sensitivity but did not affect the speed of identifying the pre-change object, suggesting that similarity between the pre- and post-change objects does not degrade the pre-change representation. Identification speed for the pre-change object was faster than naming the new object regardless of detection accuracy. Similarity also decreased detection sensitivity in Experiment 2 but improved the recognition of the pre-change object under both correct detection and detection failure. The similarity effect on recognition was greatly reduced when 20% of each pre-change stimulus was masked by random dots in Experiment 3. Together the results suggest that the level of pre-change representation under detection failure is equivalent to the level under correct detection and that the pre-change representation is almost complete. Similarity lowers detection sensitivity but improves explicit access in recognition. Dissociation arises between recognition and change detection as the two judgments rely on the match-to-mismatch signal and mismatch-to-match signal, respectively.     

A Preliminary Study on the Use of Mobile Phones amongst Migrant Workers in Beijing

The past decade has witnessed the rapid growth in the number of mobile phone users in China. According to a survey conducted amongst migrant workers and reported in this study, mobile phones have become sufficiently affordable for an overwhelming majority of migrants. Drawing on examples from Beijing, this article discusses the implications of mobile phone usage among migrant workers in China. Through an analysis of their stories about their daily lives, this paper attempts to explicate migrant workers’ mobile phone usage against a background of their alienated situation in Beijing. The author explores the responses of the migrants to their situation in relation to the social usage of mobile phone and specifically introduces and discusses four concepts for understanding patterns of migrant mobile phone use: feigned presence, concern in absence, jianghu relations, and romantic relations. The paper ends with the conclusion that the patterns of mobile phone usage contribute to changes in migrant workers’ way of life. Residual problems and avenues of future research that arise from this study are also discussed in the conclusion.

重读对语篇表征中的信息的激活的影响

考察在口语语篇表征中重读是如何影响新信息和旧信息的激活.结果表明,与无重读的基线条件相比,重读条件下,新信息和旧信息在语篇表征中的激活水平都提高.无论其信息结构如何,重读会提高它所标识的概念节点在语篇表征中的激活.     

服从行为的心理学研究

分析了米尔格拉姆"服从"实验中被试的心理行为特点;阐述了米尔格拉姆"服从"实验中被试行为的多重性质;揭示了服从是"主体在特定社会情境中,通过对客体提供的社会信息的概括、判断和推理,为寻求奖赏或免受惩罚而产生的与客体一致的行为或态度"的本质;提出了服从行为"期望理论"的数学模型和服从行为转化的基本历程函数图.     

学习判断孤立效应的发生机制及作用途径

本研究系统考察学习判断是否存在孤立效应,采用电脑编程的动窗技术,随机选取高一的学生共614名,实施3个实验分别探讨知觉、类型、语义孤立材料的学习判断是否存在孤立效应.结果表明:知觉、类型和语义孤立会影响学习判断值,表现出明显的孤立效应,由此得出学习判断中存在孤立效应.     

VDT界面颜色视觉工效:色调因素对视觉绩效的影响

此项研究通过多色彩前景色和背景色匹配的字符辨别反应时实验研究,探索多种颜色对比条件下的色调因素对视觉反应绩效的影响,试图探索多色彩对比条件下的何种色调匹配具有最佳视觉绩效.结果表明色调对视觉反应绩效有显著影响.互补色匹配的视觉绩效优于平均视觉绩效,同色调对比匹配的视觉绩效低于平均视觉绩效.     

传递性推理的认知与脑机制探讨

以抽象的内容作为实验材料,测定12名大学生在完成四种不同格式的传递性推理任务时的事件相关电位(ERP),探讨传递性推理过程的认知机制与脑内时程动态变化.结果发现,被试解决四种不同类型推理题目时的正确率和反应时差异均不显著;但是"谁最大"提问方式的正确率显著高于"谁最小"提问方式,另外,在任务类型①与④中"谁最大"提问方式的反应时显著短于"谁最小"提问方式.脑电数据结果表明,不同任务类型下,不同提问方式所诱发的ERP波形基本一致.空间表象模型与语言学模型都不能很好地解释以上结论,这似乎表明推理过程是很复杂的,人们往往会采用不同的信息加工策略来解决不同的推理问题,从而激活不同的大脑区域和神经通路.     

急性期精神分裂症返回抑制的时间进程

利用线索-靶子模式研究急性期精神分裂症返回抑制的时间进程.研究对象包括健康对照组、早期精神分裂症组和慢性精神分裂症组.结果表明:(1)健康志愿者和早期精神分裂症患者均有完好的返回抑制现象,而慢性精神分裂症患者存在返回抑制缺陷,返回抑制出现时间延迟,持续时间缩短.(2)精神分裂症的返回抑制缺陷与疾病慢性化指标(病程、既往发作次数和住院次数)之间存在相关性.结果支持早期精神分裂症和慢性精神分裂症在急性期存在不同的返回抑制特征,早期精神分裂症的返回抑制保存完好,而慢性精神分裂症的返回抑制存在缺陷;精神分裂症返回抑制缺陷可能发生发展于疾病的慢性过程中,而不是发生于疾病初期;精神分裂症的注意缺陷是独立的缺陷症状.     

不同民族中学生英语阅读的元认知意识研究

采用英语阅读的元认知意识问卷对汉族、纳西族和彝族中学生进行测查。结果表明：(1)3种民族中学生英语阅读的元认知意识水平随着年级的升高呈现出提高的趋势;(2)3种民族男女生英语阅读的元认知意识水平整体上具有一致性,但在有些项目上却呈现出女生优于男生的趋势;(3)汉族与纳西族中学生英语阅读的元认知意识水平整体上具有一致性,彝族中学生英语阅读的元认知意识水平呈现出优于汉族和纳西族的趋势。