BANOVA: Bayesian Analysis of Experiments in Consumer Psychology

This article introduces a Bayesian extension of ANOVA for the analysis of experimental data in consumer psychology. The approach, called BANOVA (Bayesian ANOVA), addresses some common challenges that consumer psychologists encounter in their experimental work, and is specifically suited for the analysis of repeated measures designs. There appears to be a recent surge in interest in those designs based on the recognition that they are sensitive to individual differences in response to experimental treatments and that they offer advantages for assessing causal mediating mechanisms, even at the individual level. BANOVA enables the analysis of repeated measures data derived from mixed within–between‐subjects experiments with Normal and nonNormal‐dependent variables and accommodates unobserved individual differences. It allows for the calculation of effect sizes, planned comparisons, simple effects, spotlight and floodlight analyses, and includes a wide range of mediation, moderation, and moderated mediation analyses. An R software package implements these analyses, and aims to provide a one‐stop shop for the analysis of experiments in consumer psychology. The package is illustrated through applications to a number of data sets from previously published studies.     

主体性的自我澄明:论王阳明“致良知”说

本文简要论述王阳明“致良知”说作为生存论的基本内涵。王阳明将《大学》“致知”之说阐释为“致良知”,同时也就将朱熹藉此所建构的知识世界转换为主体的生存世界。良知作为人的本原性实在在个体的经验生存中的可能“隔断”,成为王阳明“致良知”说的起点;要求去除“隔断”而实现良知于经验生存中的通体贯彻,成为“致良知”的核心要义;“诚意”则是消除“隔断”而确保心体之真实体现的切要工夫。作者因此而鉴别出“致良知”的二重维度。“良知”即是“中体”,即是“未发之中”,故“致良知”即是“致中和”。“中”的实现,即是事物实在之真实情状的还原,即是真理的实现。     

No need for pedestals: Idealization does not predict better relationships among Asians

The authors tested whether partner idealization was positively associated with relationship quality among 105 intraracially dating Asian American couples (Study 1) and 98 Chinese couples (Study 2) through two methods. The commonly used residual‐based approach found, in both samples, the positive associations between idealizing a partner and relationship quality previously documented among European/European Americans. In contrast, the piece‐wise regression analysis, which distinguished between idealization and derogation, found few positive associations between idealizing a partner and relationship quality. Similarly, being the object of idealization rarely predicted greater relationship quality for either sample, even when perceived idealization was tested. Derogation, however, predicted relationship outcomes. Therefore, future studies should focus on negative behaviors or attitudes (or the lack thereof) in understanding relationship outcomes.     

预测加工：走出两代认知科学的历史僵局

表征-计算观与具身行动观对认知的本质几乎做了截然相反的强调。近年来,预测加工理论的发展为统一两代认知科学提供了契机。预测加工是层级预测加工与主动预测加工这两大理论部件的合称,前一部件主要继承了第一代认知科学中的层级计算加工进路,后一部件则发扬了第二代认知科学中与行动有关的理论,这两大理论部件被视为同一个统一整合理论的两个不同方面。在当代,预测加工被认为有望成为未来认知科学的新范式。     

爱荷华博弈任务在临床领域的应用

爱荷华博弈任务作为一种经典的模糊决策范式,常被用来模拟现实生活中,人们面对不确定情境下的决策行为。随着研究的深入,该任务范式作为一种临床诊断工具,逐渐在临床领域得到广泛应用。以爱荷华博弈任务为出发点,介绍其在精神分裂症、帕金森综合征、物质依赖、进食障碍等领域的应用,以期对其他临床领域有借鉴作用,并指出了该任务范式的局限及未来发展前景,使研究者对此予以积极关注。     

早期音乐暴露增强大鼠分辨声音时程的作业能力

用声一电防御性条件反射的方法。对42只具有不同早期听觉经验的大鼠的声音时程分辨行为进行了观察和比较研究。实验结果表明：大鼠具有一定的分辨声音时程的作业能力,出生后早期的音乐暴露,能够明显增强大鼠分辨声音时程的作业能力。     

基于一般线性模型框架的心理统计教学

心理统计学教学中,不同的统计方法常常是独立教学,致使学生不易理解各种方法之间的关系。事实上,t检验、方差分析和多元线性回归等方法都可以统一到一般线性模型的框架下,而结构方程是对这个框架的最一般化的描述,且结构方程路径图是呈现这个框架的形象工具。因此,本文尝试用路径图的方式来呈现心理学研究中最常用的统计方法,并将结构方程分析结果与传统分析结果进行对照,帮助学生建立一般线性模型上位概念,将以往孤立的统计方法联系起来。     

中国面孔中的人格知觉维度

要求中国被试基于对中国面孔图片的第一印象对图片中人物进行人格判断,运用主成分分析和平行分析的方法,探究面孔中的人格知觉维度。结果发现,中国被试知觉本族男性、女性面孔时存在“亲和性”和“能力”两个人格知觉维度。初步揭示了亲和性维度具有跨文化的共性,并提出更广义的能力维度,其内容包含支配性特质和坚韧性特质。     

Heteronormative Relationship Education for Same‐Gender Couples

In recent years, same‐gender group‐based relationship education has emerged as a viable intervention to prevent relationship distress among same‐gender couples. However, many of these programs are conducted in metropolitan areas and lack the ability to reach rural populations. The current study sought to investigate whether two wide‐reaching web‐based heteronormative relationship education programs could positively impact same‐gender relationships. In a sample of 49 same‐gender couples, heteronormative relationship education had small (Cohen's d = 0.16–0.39) but reliably positive effects on key areas of relationship functioning and perceived stress relative to a waitlist control group. Additionally, when same‐gender couples were matched with different‐gender individuals with similar baseline characteristics, no reliable differences between the two groups emerged even though the program effects were sometimes half as large for same‐gender couples. Finally, same‐gender participants were as satisfied with the program as the matched different‐gender individuals. Though the results of the present study indicate that heteronormative relationship education can be helpful for same‐gender couples, additional tailoring should be undertaken to ensure that same‐gender couples experience as much benefit as possible. Estimates from the current study could be used in future studies to detect what might be small‐sized differences.     

Reducing the gap between pro-environmental disposition and behavior: The role of feeling power

Environmental issues are some of the most pressing threats the world is facing nowadays. In this context, motivating individual pro-environmental behavior becomes highly relevant. One strategy is to harness people's pro-environmental dispositions (e.g., biospheric values, pro-environmental attitudes). Although acknowledging the need to behave pro-environmentally lies at the core of these dispositions, the extent to which they are reflected in day-to-day pro-environmental practices fluctuates to a great extent. How to bridge this gap between dispositions and behaviors in pro-environmentalism? This research tests a novel psychological solution, that is, to heighten subjective feelings of power. Power depicts people's control over their own and others’ outcomes. Two studies (total N = 338, with n = 200 in Study 1 and n = 138 in Study 2) manipulated people's situational sense of high versus low power (by recalling and writing about relevant incidents), measured pro-environmental dispositions (biospheric values in Studies 1 and 2; attitude toward a specific environmental cause in Study 2), and examined their effects on pro-environmental behaviors (spending time on environmental persuasion in Study 1 and spending money on environmental donation in Study 2). Overall, both studies revealed that pro-environmental dispositions predicted pro-environmental behaviors, but only when the actors were prompted to experience a high instead of a low sense of power. The findings illuminate power as an important and viable communication tactic—to orient people toward their dispositions and practice what they preach in pro-environmentalism.