心理理论研究的进展及展望:来自文献计量学的证据

心理理论作为个体重要的社会认知能力之一,从1978年被提出以来一直备受关注。值此心理理论研究发展40年之际,研究试图借助文献计量学的方法,从宏观的视角呈现1999年到2018年心理理论研究的状况。结果表明,近二十年来心理理论的文献年发表量保持线性增长。文献的主题从关注心理理论的发展和测量,逐渐过渡到将心理理论放在社会认知的框架中进行探讨。研究同时以发表文献数量为指标,探讨了该领域的代表性杂志和重要作者。结合现有心理理论研究的成果,文章最后从心理理论的研究问题领域、相关脑区、毕生发展、异常发展和人工心理理论的建构几个方面进行了延伸讨论。

Development and Further Direction of The Study of Theory of Mind:Evidence from Bibliometrics

As one of the most important social cognitive abilities,theory of mind has been a center of attention since it was put forward in 1978.On the occasion of the development of this field for 40 years,the current study tried to present the research status from 1999 to 2018 by means of bibliometrics.To be specific,journals,authors,topics and citation relationship of literature related to theory of mind has been deeply analyzed.Results showed that,the annual publication of literature keeps linear growth in the past two decades.As for topics,studies previously focused on the development and measurement of theory of mind,while recent ones are increasingly inclined to explore theory of mind in the framework of social cognition.Besides,notable journals and representative authors were analyzed in terms of the amount of literature.According to current progress,the present study further discussed theory of mind from the aspects of knowledge basis,neural basis,life-span development,abnormal development and artificial theory of mind,which implied the future direction.