Effects of payment notifications on consumer purchase decisions: The role of pain of payment

Payment notifications are becoming ubiquitous due to the popularity of online payment, which are usually considered to be records of consumption. However, the effect of payment notifications on consumer behavior has not been fully understood. Given this research void, this study explores the effects of payment notifications on consumers' consumption amount during a multiple-purchase shopping journey. Considering the prevalence of online payment in China, we conducted four experiments using Chinese samples. The results confirm that payment notifications can evoke consumers' pain of payment, which consequently reduces consumers' subsequent shopping amount. Additionally, we argue that the effects of payment notifications on consumer behavior are different in the early/late stage of the shopping journey or in the gift-purchasing/self-purchasing conditions. The findings of this article could help payment application developers to better design payment notification functions.     

汉语语词的短时记忆广度

我们应用标准的立即回忆实验设计,考查汉语语词的短时记忆(STM)广度。以单音词,双音合成词和四字成语为材料的STM广度,基本上符合STM的组块假说(即STM能贮存一个固定数目的组块),但受到组块熟悉性和复杂性的较大影响。而且,语音的相似性引起广度的降低。汉字在字形上的相似性对广度没有什么影响。通过编制人工“汉字”,发现汉字的偏旁部首不是组块单位,而在人工“字”中却作为组块起作用。最后,比较了两种呈现刺激方式对STM广度的影响,发现有控制的知觉策略能增加STM广度。     

Cross-cultural Variation in the Importance of Psychological Characteristics: A Seven-country Study

The Psychological Importance (PI) of personality traits is defined as the degree to which they provide information useful in understanding and predicting behaviour. University students from 7 countries (Chile, China, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, and the United States) rated the PI of each of the 300 items of the Adjective Check List along a 5-point scale. PI was shown to be a meaningful (i.e. reliable) concept in each country. Comparisons of PI ratings between pairs of countries indicated correlations ranging from 0.23 to 0.73, with a mean of 0.49 among the 7 countries. A variety of additional analyses indicated that six of the seven countries tended to group themselves into two clusters: (1) China, Nigeria, and Pakistan; and (2) Chile, Norway, and the United States. In the second cluster, trait importance had a curvilinear relationship to trait favourability (i.e. both good and bad traits may be important) whereas in the first cluster trait importance and favourability had a linear relationship (i.e. only good traits may be important). The findings were suggestive of substantial cross-cultural differences in the importance assigned to psychological traits.     

Applications of multivariate visualization to behavioral sciences

The complexity of psychological science often requires the collection and analysis of multidimensional data. Such data bring about a corresponding cognitive load that has led scientists to develop techniques of scientific visualization to ease the burden. This paper provides an introduction to scientific visualization techniques, a framework for understanding those techniques, and an assessment of the suitability of this approach for psychology. The framework employed builds on the notion of balancingnoise andsmooth in statistical analysis.     

斯腾伯格（R．J．Sternberg）智力成分理论述评

成分是斯腾伯格提出的分析智力操作的基本单元。成分分析是对智力行为心理机制的描述。但成分理论不能独立地说明智力,它隶属于斯氏三重智力理论的总体框架。论文分析了成分的性质、种类及其相互作用,并对个体和年龄差异在各种成分功能上的表现作出解释。成分理论的提出是对人脑黑箱软件意义上的工作原理的可贵探索。但它在可证伪性方面是有缺陷的。     

斯腾伯格(R.J.Sternberg)三重智力理论述评

本文分三部分。一、论述斯氏对传统ＩＱ测验的主要批评。二、介绍三重智力理论,尤以情境亚理论和经验亚理论为重点。三、对三重智力理论的基本评价：它拓宽了智力本质的内涵,为编制较理想的测验提供了较适当的基础,在三重理论的框架内能较好解决测验有效性和测验公平性问题;三重结构本质上是一种层级结构而非平行结构;经验亚理论与或分亚理论之间的关系值得进一步探讨。     

Brain mechanisms and intelligence. Psychometric g and executive function

Sternberg [Sternberg, R.J. (1985). Beyond IQ: a triarchic theory of human intelligence. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.] has proposed that the general intelligence, or the g factor, obtained when batteries of mental tests are factor analyzed, is a reflection of the fact that executive functions (EF) are common to all cognitive tests. Three lines of evidence that fail to support Sternberg's formulation are presented. First, in animal problem solving studies, there is only a modest degree of overlap between brain structures that are critical for g, and brain structures that have been identified as the rodent EF system. Second, children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), characterized by EF dysfunction, do not have IQ scores that are lower, on average, than children in the test standardization populations. Third, human frontal lobe patients often have clear EF deficits, but IQ (a next-best estimate of g) may be preserved. These findings cast serious doubt on the plausibility of Sternberg's formulation. Clarifying the distinction between psychometric g and EF can be important for understanding the differences between practical and psychometric intelligence.     

论医学思路对医学创新的作用

思路,有广义和狭义之分。党的思想路线作为广义的思路,在中国革命和建设的两次历史性飞跃中起决定性作用。说明思路对创新起决定作用。医学思路作为狭义的思路,在医学创新及对创新成果实践检验中同样起决定作用。徐荣祥教授以医学思路变革为先导创立ＭＥＢＴ／ＭＥＢＯ及各派按不同思路对它实践检验而结果相反,典型地表现着这种关系。具有普遍指导意义。     

系统视角下致癌基因与遗传背景的相互作用

肿瘤是当今人类生命健康的主要威胁之一。致癌基因与遗传背景和肿瘤的形成有密切关系。致癌基因与遗传背景,致癌基因与抗癌基因之间的时空结构和非线性作用都有可能使正常细胞恶变,导致肿瘤的形成。致癌基因与遗传背景实际上构成了细胞中的一个完整的遗传系统。本文试图用系统方法探讨两者的相互作用,以便更好地探讨肿瘤发生的机理和治疗手段。     

中医现代化从何化起

正确评价中医理论是中医现代化的认识前提。尊经复古者的“中医现代化”,只是用现代科学外衣包装中医理论。某些研究者单纯着眼于证实中医理论的整体科学性,而忽视对其中某些部分的证伪。这些都影响了中医现代化的顺利开展。片面注重微观研究,忽略宏观研究是微观研究的基础,逾越了研究的阶段,已使微观研究前进受阻。运用现代科学方法,从宏观角度对中医理论进行一次再验证,特别是规范“证”的诊断标准,是开展中医现代化研究的