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Mothers, particularly human mothers, exhibit exceptional sensitivity to the unique acoustic features, emotional valence, and survival cues embedded in infant cries and laughter. This article evaluates various cognitive experimental paradigms developed using infant cry materials and investigates mate…
Against the backdrop of building a fertility-friendly society, family well-being and scientific parenting have attracted increasing attention. Based on 5-day intensive longitudinal data from 370 mothers of early school-age children in China, this study employs dynamic structural equation modeling to…
This study adopts a sociocultural perspective on learning engagement, integrated with human capital theory, and employs two sub-studies anchored in three categories of social factors to analyze the longitudinal evolution of learning engagement among students in mainland China, examining the influenc…
Effective coping and management of negative emotions is an essential competency for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to adapt to society; however, previous research has predominantly focused on emotion recognition and emotion understanding, with less attention devoted to the emotion regu…
Daily social verbal communication contains both semantic and prosodic cues. Do children with autism spectrum disorder rely on prosody or semantics to judge a speaker's emotion in social interactions? Investigating this question facilitates understanding of the disorder's etiology and provides direct…
Does marriage alter the developmental trajectory of individuals' life satisfaction? This is both a major issue concerning national harmony and stability, and an important question regarding individual quality of life. Based on hedonic adaptation theory and the buffer model, this study utilizes six-w…
This study utilized the fixation-related potential technique to examine predictive processing in Chinese reading and the cognitive mechanisms underlying its influence on lexical recognition effects. Analyses of eye movement and electroencephalographic (EEG) data in the pre-target and target word reg…
Threat stimuli possess strong priority in attentional processing, yet whether they facilitate or interfere with the formation of learned distractor inhibition remains unclear. This study examined the influence of threat stimuli on the formation of location-probability-based learned distractor inhibi…
Humans often need to make predictions based on current situations to guide subsequent behavior. However, researchers currently debate vigorously regarding whether predictable or unpredictable items yield better memory performance. In this study (Experiment 1: item recognition; Experiment 2: associat…
Amidst increasingly prominent global intergroup conflicts, psychological time framework represents a novel pathway to facilitate intergroup helping behavior, capable of effectively mitigating social conflicts and promoting resource redistribution. Compared to conventional single time points, constru…
[Objective] To explore assessment methods for perceived social support among adolescents based on Weibo text and analyze its demographic differential characteristics. [Methods] Python was employed to crawl Weibo texts (approximately 300,000 posts) from adolescents aged 12–18 nationwide, construct a …
Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (CDS), also known as Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT), constitutes a cluster of persistent behavioral patterns or symptoms characterized by attentional disengagement, sluggish information processing, and hypoactivity resulting from neurodevelopmental deficits. This syn…
With the development of smart home robot technology, security risks have emerged as a new challenge for human-robot trust. This study proposes and validates a new dimension of trust in smart home robots—security trust. To this end, Study 1 developed a security trust scale for smart home robots and v…
Motor contagion, as a core mechanism of dynamic coupling between perceptual and motor systems in human social interaction, has long been a subject of debate regarding its neural mechanisms and evolutionary significance. In social interactions, the unconscious influence on an individual's own actions…
The cognitive characteristics and neural mechanisms of multi-channel category learning are of critical importance for elucidating the principles of cross-modal knowledge representation. This study combines event-related potential (ERP) technology with the drift-diffusion model to systematically inve…
Interpretive bias toward relevant cues represents a crucial component of cognitive bias in addicted individuals; however, the characteristics and underlying mechanisms of smokers' interpretive bias toward smoking-related cues have yet to be elucidated. The present study examined, through three exper…
This study challenges the societal stereotype that "childbearing contradicts women's work motivation" and proposes the Parental Identity Gain Theory. It posits that parental identity can serve as a significant source of work motivation for working mothers. This gain operates through two mechanisms: …
Childhood maltreatment is closely associated with adolescent self-injurious behavior; however, research examining the underlying mechanisms from the "gene × environment - endophenotype - behavioral phenotype" theoretical perspective remains limited. Based on the polygenic risk score research paradig…
Music training can enhance individuals' sensitivity to temporal and non-temporal structures, but the joint influence of these structures in working memory remains unclear. This study investigates how pitch and rhythmic structures are processed in auditory working memory and the role of music trainin…
With the technological advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs) in natural language generation and affective computing, their capacity for empathy simulation in domains such as psychological counseling, doctor-patient communication, and customer service has attracted considerable attention. The …
Generative AI agents, powered by generative artificial intelligence (also known as generative AI) technology, possess remarkable emergent intelligence capabilities that can help humans break through mental sets, becoming new members of corporate new product development teams—generative AI teammates.…
In prosocial behavior, helpers typically face a trade-off between fairness and efficiency. Previous research has found that when fairness and efficiency cannot be simultaneously satisfied, people often neglect the efficiency of helping a minority and tend to distribute donated resources equally amon…
Micro-expressions refer to brief facial actions that individuals unconsciously display when attempting to suppress genuine emotions. Owing to their non-invasive nature, they possess significant application value in domains such as national security and public security. To address challenges includin…
Contemporary society has witnessed an increasing tendency for individuals to "put a price tag" on themselves during mate selection. This study conceptualizes this phenomenon as a computational mindset in mate choice and proposes that in high relational mobility environments where interpersonal relat…
Psychobiography focuses on the study of extraordinary individuals, and its shift toward the life courses of ordinary individuals depends on the creation and practice of psychobiographical therapy. The theoretical core of psychobiographical therapy is based on the concept of "prototype scenario" prop…
Improvisational behavior represents a behavioral pattern characterized by both immediacy and creativity. However, research that elaborates on the generation mechanism of improvisational behavior by incorporating its essential nature remains insufficient. To address this gap, the present study integr…
Objective: This study explored the mechanism by which observing peers' adverse experiences influences distress disclosure of negative information through two progressive studies. Methods: Study 1 (N=218) constructed a moderated mediation model to analyze the relationships among stress, self-esteem, …
Under the national strategy of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, psychological crisis intervention for ethnic minority students in Yunnan vocational colleges must transcend traditional psychological paradigms and shift toward the deep logic of mutual construction between cu…
HPV vaccination can effectively prevent not only the development of cervical cancer and its precancerous lesions, but also diseases in other anatomical sites caused by HPV infection. However, the vaccination status in China is not optimistic, with many young individuals exhibiting hesitation toward …
Objective: With the development of internet big data and machine learning methods, an increasing number of studies combine text analysis and machine learning to predict satisfaction. In research on building life satisfaction prediction models, to address the challenge of obtaining large amounts of e…
On social media, posts expressing a desire to "return to senior year of high school for a couple of days" are frequently observed. To investigate the nostalgic psychology toward high school among college student populations, this study employs a questionnaire survey methodology, innovatively integra…
Alzheimer's disease exhibits extremely high incidence and mortality rates. As a clinical prodromal stage, investigating the formation and development mechanisms of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) contributes to the prevention of Alzheimer's disease onset. Existing research demonstrates tha…
Social hierarchy is a dynamically evolving multidimensional system, whose acquisition can be categorized into three major pathways. The dominance pathway emphasizes resource acquisition through aggression and threat, having evolved under intense sexual selection pressure. The competence pathway high…
Under the backdrop of rural revitalization, how to comprehensively and effectively measure the post-poverty-alleviation living environment and accurately understand the negative impacts of poverty experience and its dynamics on child development, as well as the underlying mechanisms, has emerged as …
Detailed content feedback promotes deep-level learning, such as transfer. However, how the presentation mode of feedback in teacher-student interactions influences long-term learning transfer and its interpersonal neural basis remains unclear. This study employed a face-to-face teacher-student quest…
With the digitalization and intelligence of enterprise operations and the platformization of management, emergent leadership among employees has gradually become a key force underpinning organizations. Consequently, the mechanisms of leadership emergence in online work contexts have emerged as an ur…
Memory consolidation typically occurs slowly during periods of rest or sleep following memory encoding. However, under stressful conditions, memories may be rapidly consolidated. Given the long-standing lack of quantitative methods for neural activity during human memory consolidation, the mechanism…
The present study examined whether a high-level construal mindset promotes categorizing information according to thematic relations. In two experiments, the construal-level priming task was used to initiate a high-level versus low-level construal mindset, and then all participants were asked to comp…
Signal detection theory is widely employed to explain individuals' decision-making processes across various types of cognitive tasks. However, a significant limitation of classical signal detection theory is its difficulty in further elucidating the intrinsic psychological mechanisms that underlie t…
Metacognition is cognition about cognition that encompasses various aspects of cognition. In recent years, the integration of metacognition and facial cognition has begun to attract attention. The entry points for this integration include the applicability of metacognitive illusions (the Dunning-Kru…
Polytomous attributes extend the traditional dichotomous attributes (i.e., two levels, typically defined as 0 and 1) in diagnostic assessments to multiple values (multiple levels can be 0, 1, …). They can describe not only whether examinees have mastered knowledge attributes but also the degree of m…
When two or more items are encoded in an integrated manner, familiarity can also support associative recognition—a viewpoint that has garnered substantial empirical support. However, disagreements persist regarding how integration influences both associative recognition and the recognition of indivi…
The serial position effect in divergent thinking refers to the phenomenon where the number of ideas generated per unit time gradually decreases over time, while the originality of ideas progressively increases. Associative theory and the executive control hypothesis respectively focus on explaining …
The temporal binding effect refers to the phenomenon where the time points of voluntary actions and their outcomes subjectively converge. This effect can be categorized into action binding and outcome binding, corresponding respectively to the temporal shifts of voluntary actions and action outcomes…
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, how to persuade individuals to receive COVID-19 vaccination has garnered attention from policymakers and researchers. This study investigates, from an approach-avoidance motivation perspective, the effects of different goal frames (positive vs. negative…
Currently, most research on CD-CAT has been conducted based on 0-1 scoring data, whereas in actual educational and psychological testing, there also exists a large amount of nominal response data. This study develops a CD-CAT suitable for nominal response data (hereinafter referred to as NCD-CAT) ba…
Typically, cognitive diagnosis necessitates diagnostic evaluation of examinees through cognitive diagnosis models. The validity of diagnostic results generated by cognitive diagnosis models depends on the congruence between examinees' response patterns and the selected model. Consequently, when eval…
In recent years, the field of social class psychology has exhibited a pronounced research orientation toward subjective social class, prominently manifested by an emphasis on the subjective class component within the concept of social class, with a tendency to focus on subjective class in theoretica…
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused tremendous damage to individuals' normal lives and societal development. Recently, with the emergence of novel coronavirus variants, people worldwide continue to face the threat of COVID-19. Vaccination is considered one of the most effective methods to combat this p…
During periods of social disasters such as pandemics, the number of trauma survivors increases dramatically; coupled with transportation disruptions, traditional psychological rescue efforts struggle to respond promptly to large-scale psychological crises among disaster victims. Expressive writing, …
