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The Effects of Scarcity Mindset on Children's Executive Function in the Context of Poverty Experience and Its Mechanisms

Jiang Ying, Hu Jia, Feng Liangyu, Ren Qidan, Jiang Ying
2024-02-26 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202402.00236

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 …

Chunked Feedback in Teacher-Student Interaction Promotes Long-Term Learning Transfer: A Behavioral and Near-Infrared Hyperscanning Study

Zhu Yi, Hu Yi, Zhu Yi, Hu Yi
2024-02-24 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202402.00238

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…

Seeing Words as if Seeing the Person: The Effect of Virtual Communication Style on Leadership Emergence

Tang Yipeng, Fan Wei, Zhang Xiao, Wang Shuhong, Xiong Shankuo, Pu Xiaoping, Fan Wei
2024-02-20 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202402.00205

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…

Neural Replay Mechanisms of Human Episodic Memory Consolidation Under Stress

Liu Wei, Chen Ruixin, Guo Jinpeng, Liu Wei
2024-02-20 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202402.00206

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…

High-level construal mindset promotes categorizing information based on thematic relations

Kai Shi, Jiansheng Li, Jiansheng Li
2024-02-13 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202402.00239

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…

Validation and Estimation of Hierarchical Attribute Q-Matrix

Qin Chunying, Yu Xiaofeng, Yu Xiaofeng
2022-05-26 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00168

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…

The Mechanism of Unitization in Facilitating Associative Memory: Familiarity and Recollection Processing

Liu Zejun, Liu Wei, Liu Zejun, Liu Wei
2022-05-26 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00167

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: A New Perspective on the Dynamic Generation Mechanism of Creative Ideas

Chen Qunlin, Ding Ke, Chen Qunlin, Ding Ke
2022-05-20 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00142

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 Effect of Emotional Valence Predictability on Temporal Binding Effect

Huang Xinjie, Zhang Chi, Wan Huagen, Zhang Lingcong, Wan Huagen
2022-05-19 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00118

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…

Avoiding Harm Now, Seeking Benefits in the Future: The Interactive Effect of Goal Framing and Temporal Distance on Vaccine Persuasion Effectiveness

Liu Nan, An Xinru, Li Aimei, Liu Pei, Sun Hailong, Li Aimei, Sun Hailong
2022-05-19 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00117

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…

A Comparative Study of Item Selection Strategies for CD-CAT Based on the Nominal Response Model

Zhang Jie, Luo Zhaosheng, Yu Xiaofeng, Qin Chunying, Luo Zhaosheng, Yu Xiaofeng
2022-05-12 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00030

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…

Research on Person Fit in Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment

Yu Xiaofeng, Tang Qian, Qin Chunying, Li Yujun, YU Xiaofeng
2022-05-12 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00026

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…

Contributions and Limitations of the Subjective Class Research Approach

Yang Shenlong, Rao Tingting, Yu Feng, Yongyu Guo, Guo Yongyu
2022-05-12 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00029

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…

Exploring the influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccination willingness: A mixed-method study in China

Yue Su, Sijia Li, Feng Huang, Jia Xue, Tingshao Zhu, Jia Xue, Tingshao Zhu
2022-05-11 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00024

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…

Theoretical Exploration of Expressive Writing Applied to Psychological Rescue During Social Disasters

Qiu Xiaoyan, Ge Yanying, Hu Chao, Hu Chao
2022-05-10 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00038

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, …

The Role of Chinese Text Familiarity in Word Segmentation and Lexical Recognition

Chen Mingjing, Wang Yongsheng, Zhao Bingjie, Li Xin, Bai Xuejun, Wang Yongsheng, Bai Xuejun
2022-05-08 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00101

Abstract Based on the E-Z Reader model and the integrated model of Chinese reading, there is controversy over whether word segmentation and lexical identification constitute an interactive unified process. By manipulating reading direction to alter text familiarity, we investigated its role in word …

Danger as a Catalyst for Change? A Study on the Differential Effects of Job Insecurity on Innovative Behavior

Ma Bing, Yang Rong, Du Jing, Ma Guimei, Ma Guimei
2022-05-07 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00031

Organizations often face a "dilemma" in employee management and organizational innovation—finding it difficult to provide stable employment yet having to rely on employees to achieve organizational innovation, which makes research on the impact of employee job insecurity on innovative behavior cruci…

Processing Mechanisms and Integration Time Course of Verb Metaphors: Evidence from Behavioral and ERP Studies

Li Ying, Lu Xiaoxiao, Li Xinyan, Wang Yue, Wang Yue
2022-05-06 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00032

The debate over whether verb metaphor processing is entirely based on perceptual-motor simulation or also involves the participation of abstract semantic processing systems, and how the two interact, has remained a subject of debate. This study investigated the processing mechanisms and integration …

A Novel Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Method for Optimal Sample Size Estimation in Generalizability Theory: Comparison with Three Traditional Methods

LI Guangming, Qin Yue, Qin Yue
2022-05-03 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202205.00014

Generalizability Theory is widely applied in the field of psychological and educational measurement. How to achieve optimal reliability of measurement procedures under budget constraints is an important issue that researchers need to consider, and this problem can be transformed into one of optimal …

Target Decision versus Motor Elicitation: The Influence of Motor Responses in Target Detection on the Attentional Facilitation Effect

Zheng Siqi, Meng Yingfang, Huang Fajie, Meng Yingfang
2022-04-26 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00150

The Attentional Boost Effect (ABE) refers to the phenomenon wherein, under dual-task conditions, memory performance for background information presented concurrently with target stimuli in a detection task is superior to that for background information presented with distractor stimuli. Previous res…

The Hierarchical Nature of Cognitive Control: EEG Evidence from Task Switching

Wu Jianxiao, Cao Bihua, Chen Yun, Li Zixia, Li Fuhong, Li Fuhong
2022-04-25 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00147

One of the main research paradigms in cognitive control is task switching. Previous studies have found that switch costs are modulated by the hierarchical nature of cognitive control, but few studies have explored the dynamic neural mechanisms underlying this modulation process. The present study in…

Differences in Performance Characteristics for Head-Turn Selection of Receding and Approaching Moving Targets in 3D Virtual Space

Deng Chenglong, Geng Peng, KUAI Shuguang, Kuai Shuguang
2022-04-22 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00143

Selecting moving targets by head rotation is a common operation in virtual reality (VR). However, moving targets include both receding and approaching motions, and determining the differences in temporal characteristics between these two types of operations is of significant importance for designing…

The Online Construction of Numerical Spatial Representations: Evidence from the SNARC Effect in Interference Contexts

Wang Qiangqiang, Zhang Qi, Shi Wendian, Wang Zhiwei, Zhang Pengcheng, Shi Wendian
2022-04-21 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00142

Although previous studies have found that numbers are spatially represented in the human memory system, how the human brain accomplishes this spatial representation of numbers remains controversial. This study conducted two experiments to investigate the characteristics and mechanisms of numerical s…

The Effect of Marital Quality on Parental Coparenting: A Cross-Level Mediation Analysis Based on the Common Fate Model

Liu Yiting, Fan Jieqiong, Chen Binbin, Fan Jieqiong, Chen Binbin
2022-04-18 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00140

The common fate model (CFM) is a reliable model in family or dyadic-level research that better explains the inherent interdependence in intimate relationships. Based on the common fate model, this study examined the influence of overall family marital quality on parental coparenting and the cross-le…

Gain or Loss? The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Challenging Job Demands on Work-Family Gain

Xu Shan, Yucheng Zhang, Zhang Bingran, Shi Junqi, Yuan Mengsha, Ren Yingwei, Yucheng Zhang, Zhang Bingran
2022-04-17 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00124

Based on Conservation of Resources Theory and Uncertainty Management Theory, and employing a diary study methodology to collect data from 81 participants over 10 working days, this study comprehensively examined the influence of challenging job demands on work-family enrichment from both static and …

The Effect of Employees' Ethical Leadership Prototype on Ethical Leadership Effectiveness: The Mediating Role of Employee Reverence

Xing Zhijie, He Wei, Zhang Zhengtang, Jiang Xuting, He Wei
2022-04-13 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00043

Drawing on theoretical models of specific positive emotions in the workplace and implicit leadership theory, this study investigates the influence mechanism of ethical leadership on employee job performance, specifically examining the mediating role of awe and the moderating role of employee ethical…

What are the differences in moral psychology between Chinese and Western cultural contexts?

Hu Xiaomeng, Yu Feng, Kaiping Peng, Hu Xiaomeng
2022-04-12 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00092

Since its inception, modern Western ethics and moral psychology have experienced a century of development, characterized by abundant literature, remarkable achievements, and diverse schools of thought. By contrast, Chinese moral psychology, despite having accumulated certain theoretical inquiries an…

Machine Learning Applications in Early Identification and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children

Hou Tingting
2022-04-07 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00033

Early detection, early diagnosis, and early intervention constitute a consensus in the educational rehabilitation of children with autism. However, limitations of traditional identification and diagnostic methods, together with a shortage of professionals, frequently result in children with autism m…

The Sustainability of Altruistic Behavior in Organizations and Its Antecedent Mechanisms: A Proactive Motivation Perspective

Yu Kun, Wang Zheyuan, Peng Xiongliang, Wang Pei, Zhao Zejun, Yan Yidan, Cao Peiyue, Yu Kun
2022-04-07 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00029

With the rapid development of the social economy, the sustainability of employee altruistic behavior has become increasingly important for organizations and their members to better adapt and develop in the current rapidly changing work environment. Recent studies have found that altruistic behavior …

Residential Mobility and Consumption: A Regulatory Focus Theory Perspective

Liu Wumei, Xiao Haiyi, Wang Xuefeng, Wang Xuefeng
2022-04-07 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00034

Residential mobility refers to the frequency with which individuals change their place of residence (i.e., moving). As a key socio-ecological factor, it exerts significant influence on individuals' cognition, emotion, and behavior. Previous scholars have reviewed the consequences of residential mobi…

A Study of Person Fit Based on Residual Statistics in Polytomously Scored Tests

Tong Hao, Yu Xiaofeng, Qin Chunying, Peng Yafeng, Zhong Xiaoyuan, Yu Xiaofeng
2022-04-06 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202204.00023

This study proposes a personal fit statistic R for polytomous scoring items to investigate its performance in detecting six common aberrant response patterns (cheating, guessing, random responding, carelessness, innovative responding, and mixed aberrance), and compares it with the standardized log-l…

Embodied Memory and Its Intrinsic Mechanisms

Jin Yuwei, Sun Xiao, Song Yaowu, Song Yaowu
2022-03-29 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00116

Embodied memory research primarily investigates the role of the body and its sensorimotor processes in memory. Manipulating or constraining the physical state, embodied characteristics, or availability of the body can affect the efficiency, valence, and content of memory. The underlying mechanisms c…

The Impact of Relational Human Resource Management Practices on Beneficiaries' Altruistic Behavior: A Moral Compensation Perspective

Yang Huan, Wei Xuhua, Xuhua Wei
2022-03-25 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00081

Relational human resource management (HRM) practices are prevalent in numerous organizations and institutions. While scholars have devoted considerable attention to their negative impacts on society, organizations, and individuals, prior research has overlooked the other side of relational HRM pract…

Validation of the Body Posture Expression Test Battery in Chinese Adults and Children

Yang, Yunmei, HOU, Wenwen, Li, Jing, Li, Jing
2022-03-19 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00065

Purpose: The body posture expression stimulus set provides standardized stimuli for emotion research. While the consistency of this stimulus set has been validated in Western adults, its consistency in Chinese populations remains unclear. Therefore, this study selected 42 images each of happiness, s…

Introduction to Python for Big Data Psychology

Lyu Sihua, Song Mengyao, Mo Liuling, Li Dongqi, Zhu Tingshao, Zhu Tingshao
2022-03-18 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00020

This paper introduces big data psychology research methods in detail, using Jiujiu Articles Network as a case study. Using text data collected from user experiments, word frequency features are extracted to train machine learning models, which are then utilized to predict the life satisfaction corre…

Neural Mechanisms of Mental Processing: From Evoked Brain Activity to Generative Brain Activity

Wang Yifeng, Zhang Chi, YAN Jin-Hong, Xiujuan Jing, Wang Yifeng
2022-03-17 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00045

The traditional computer metaphor has employed evoked brain activity as the primary means to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying mental processing. Extensive research has revealed that evoked brain activity does not constitute the principal component of brain activity; rather, it interacts …

The Relationship between the Development of Social Mindfulness Understanding and Theory of Mind in Preschool Children

Zhao Xin, Li Dandan, Yang Xiangdong, Yang Xiangdong
2022-03-16 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00043

This study investigated the development of social mindfulness understanding in 4- to 6-year-old children and its relationship with theory of mind. The study measured social mindfulness understanding, theory of mind, prosociality, and executive function in 100 children aged 4–6 years. The results rev…

Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Response Inhibition in Healthy Populations

Guo Zhihua, Lu Hongliang, Huang Peng, Zhu Xia, Zhu Xia
2022-03-15 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00042

Response inhibition refers to the ability to suppress inappropriate or currently unnecessary behaviors. Studies have demonstrated that response inhibition is primarily associated with the functional integrity of the inferior frontal gyrus, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and pre-supplementary motor …

Graded Responses and Evaluation of Driving Characteristics under Road Hazard Stress

Zheng Xinyi, YANG Yanqun, Chen Ming, Said Easa, Zheng Xinyi
2022-03-15 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00034

[Objective] To investigate whether driving characteristics influence drivers' stress responses and behaviors when facing traffic hazard events. [Methods] This study employed the Vienna Traffic Psychological Test System (VTS) to test participants in a driving simulation experiment. In the driving sim…

Neural Mechanisms of Successful Episodic Memory Aging

Zheng Zhiwei, Xiao Fengqiu, Shao Qi, Zhao Xiaofeng, Huang Yan, Li Juan, Zheng Zhiwei, Li Juan
2022-03-09 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00015

With advancing age, most older adults experience decline in episodic memory, yet some exhibit successful aging of episodic memory, characterized by relatively good memory performance or minimal age-related decline. The brain maintenance theory, neural dedifferentiation theory, cognitive reserve theo…

Atypical Interpersonal Synchrony in Children with Autism: Manifestations and Neural Mechanisms

Zhao Lihua, Li Jing, Li Jing
2022-03-08 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00023

Interpersonal synchrony plays a crucial role in the process of individuals constructing social communication systems. Systematic literature reviews have found that children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibit reduced or disrupted interpersonal synchrony across behavioral, cognitive, and emot…

Children's Distributive Fairness in Group Contexts

Jiang Danying, Yang Yunmei, Li Jing, Li Jing
2022-03-08 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00022

In group contexts, children's resource allocation decisions are influenced by group identity, group status, and group norms. When group factors conflict with equitable distribution, children may either adhere to principles of justice and fairness or exhibit bias toward group interests. All three gro…

Two Decades of Structural Equation Modeling in China: Methodological Research and Model Development in the 21st Century

Wang Yang, Wen Zhonglin, Li Wei, Fang Jie, Wen Zhonglin
2022-03-08 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00021

During the first two decades of the 21st century, domestic methodological research on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) primarily encompassed five themes: model development, parameter estimation, model evaluation, measurement invariance, and special data processing, with particularly substantial ac…

The Impact of Single Status on Life Satisfaction: A Study Based on Zhihu Data

Zhang Zhiyong, Ma Weiwei, Zhang Shiyu, Qiu Yi, Xu Chenglong, Zhang Hongyu, Zhu Tingshao, Zhao Nan, Zhu Tingshao
2022-03-06 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202201.00006

To investigate the differences between single individuals and individuals in romantic relationships regarding life satisfaction and the proportion of emotional word frequency, this study leveraged large-scale web data, employing a Python crawler program to extract user posts from the Zhihu platform …

Cross-Domain Effects of Tone Categorical Perception Patterns and Tone Complexity on Musical Pitch Perception

Li Xianzhuo, Xiao Rong, Liang Dandan, Liang Dandan
2022-03-06 ChinaXiv: chinaxiv-202203.00019

Using pitch identification and discrimination tasks, with native speakers of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Russian as participants, this study investigated two language processing-level factors, namely tonal categorical perception patterns and differences in complexity across tonal systems of different l…