The devil you know: the effects of identifiability on punishment

Prior research has confirmed Thomas Schelling's observation that people are more sympathetic and hence generous toward specific identified victims than toward “statistical” victims who are yet to be identified. In the study presented in this article we demonstrate an equivalent effect for punitiveness. We find that people are more punitive toward identified wrongdoers than toward equivalent, but unidentified, wrongdoers, even when identifying the wrongdoer conveys no meaningful information about him or her. To account for the effect of identifiability on both generosity and punitiveness, we propose that affective reactions of any type are stronger toward an identified than toward an unidentified target. Consistent with such an account, the effect of identifiability on punishing behavior was mediated by self‐reported anger. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

美国医疗保险为什么"抛弃"在职者

美国医疗保险领域存在一个令人费解的现象:老年人、儿童有着相对完善的医疗保险体系,而最具生产能力的在职者却成为公共医疗保险(社会医疗保险)的"弃儿",大量在职人口医疗保险制度的缺乏,对美国社会经济造成了显著负面影响,并开始引起人们的关注.在分析美国不同年龄段人口医疗保险制度现状的基础上,从美国公共医疗保险制度设计、雇主医疗保险制度特点等角度分析美国在职者无医疗保险现象产生的原因及其影响,并探讨美国医疗保险未来的发展走向.     

公共卫生语境下的政府责任

近年来,公共卫生的要求越来越多地进入到中国百姓的生活之中,问题的焦点也从公共卫生本身逐渐转向政府,转向政府所应当承载的责任乃至信用程度上来.政府在公共卫生问题上责任的缺失固然有责任意识的淡漠原因,但责任本身的模糊与混乱也是不容忽视的.只有保障机制与约束机制,特别是问责制,同时发挥效用,才能保证政府责任的有效实现.     

群体心理现象——一种后现代的公共精神卫生问题

探讨以群体心理为基础的公共精神卫生问题的概念、重要性,以及发生的病理机制。认为当代公共精神卫生问题所具有定性模糊、文化边缘化等后现代的特点都与群体非理性心理的性质有关。     

新公共卫生与后医学时代

现代社会出现的超重、肥胖、吸烟、吸毒、不安全性行为等社会压力和社会环境导致的各种退行性疾病和新传染病(艾滋病等)新公共卫生问题,主要靠非卫生部门的努力,即由政府主导、社会各部门和群众参与,按生物心理社会医学模式,用健康教育和健康促进战略,深入社区,对人们的行为进行干预,医生与服务对象(健康人、亚健康人、病人)共同努力才能取胜。医务人员需转变观念、更新服务模式,为提高全民健康素质,全面建设小康社会,自觉地促进此历史性的变革。     

公共组织学习的心理学透视：经验习得与信息加工

本文从心理学关于学习的概念,关于行为、认知与信息加工的行为学习理论、社会学习理论和信息加工理论,以及行为绩效的心理学原理角度,阐述了我们所提出的公共组织学习的概念框架的心理学理论基础。认为从心理学角度透视公共组织学习,其实质是经验习得与信息加工的过程。这充分体现了心理学基本理论原理在公共组织学习理论建构中所具有的重要应用价值。     

Aversion to and Understanding of God Talk in the Public Sphere: A Survey Experiment

“God talk” occurs when a member of the public gives religious reasons for a policy claim. The legitimacy of God talk is the subject of great debate among sociological and political theorists of the public sphere. There has never been an empirical study of the general public's views of the legitimacy of God talk itself. Using a vignette survey experiment, I find among the overall public that there is a statistically significant but extremely small degree of aversion to hearing God talk. Additionally, respondents claim to be able to understand God talk just as well as claims justified by science. Aversion to hearing and understanding God talk do differ by the religion of the respondent. I conclude with a discussion of how these results may influence theoretical debate about the public sphere.     

社会公德角度的对错判断:公益传播中正负激励效果的调节变量

本文提出社会公德角度对于浪费的对错认知可能是正负面标语发挥作用的重要调节变量。本文首先基于某高校宿舍用水免费和用电付费的情况开展现场实验,在浪费"免费水"的现场实验中,负面标语比正面标语更有效地节约了用水量;浪费"付费电"的现场实验显示正面标语比负面标语效果更好。之后以食物消费假想情景实验,进一步验证了从"社会公德角度的对错判断"是正负激励效果的调节变量。     

四川灾区群众社会支持系统现状及其与主观幸福感的关系

研究5·12汶川地震后四川灾区群众的社会支持系统现状及其与主观幸福感之间的关系。方法：使用自编社会支持量表和简式主观幸福感问卷对四川省什邡市洛水镇村民和温州地区居民的社会支持和主观幸福感调查了解,社会支持源被划分为8个,共有2个项目,主观幸福感包括3个分量表,分别是12个项目的积极情绪和消极情绪以及5个条目的生活满意度。结果：1）灾区社会支持按照来源可分为人情支持与公共支持;2）在灾难后,什邡地区的群众更依赖于公共支持而温州地区群众更依赖于人情支持;3）公共支持与消极情绪之间存在显著的负相关。结论：除了与温州地区一样都依赖于人情支持外,四川灾区群众更依赖于公共支持,尤其是中央政府的支持,并且公共支持有助于缓解受灾群众的消极情绪。     

在公共生活与私人生活之间:传统伦理的现代境遇

In terms of life space, individuals are usually settled in different spaces according to relationships of blood, geography, and profession. In pre-modern societies, ethics were realized through customs, conventions, taboos, magical practices, and politics. Because this was not an open process in which rationality was sufficiently employed, non-reflectiveness and non-criticality were its essence, and intuitions and feelings were its basic modes of existence. In modern societies, the logic of capital movement settles groups of people according to their economic dependence, and interactions based on individuals’ desires and self-serving calculations have become widespread and frequent. A space for public interaction and life in which rationality is sufficiently employed and rational bases of the rules are constantly questioned thus finally came into being. Families and villages lost their centrality, resulting in a crisis of private interactions and life, and of its system of norms. __________ Translated by Liu Huawei from Zhongguo renmin daxue xuebao 中国人民大学学报 (Journal of Renmin University of China), 2008, (1): 78–85