Interpersonal Perceptions of Narcissism in an At‐Risk Adolescent Sample: A Social Relations Analysis

This study utilized Kenny's social relations model (SRM) to explore the interpersonal correlates of narcissism in an adolescent sample from a voluntary residential program. Participants were forty‐seven 16–18‐year‐olds (24 males, 23 females) attending a 22‐week residential program. Participants completed a self‐report measure of narcissism and rated one another on narcissism‐related traits and social status variables. Individuals with high levels of self‐reported narcissism were perceived by peers as antagonistic and likely to engage in future delinquency. Self‐reported narcissism was also associated with peer perceptions of narcissism‐related traits. Therefore, adolescent narcissism seems to be detected by peers and is associated with peer perceptions of some negative qualities. Potential implications of these findings are discussed.     

婚姻形式与生育水平:对中国农村三个县的考察

应用在招赘婚姻高度流行区、中度流行区和低度流行区的调查数据 ,研究了婚姻形式以及个人、家庭和社会因素对生育水平的影响及其区域差异。研究结果有助于理解农村人口在社会转型中婚姻与生育的变化过程和后果 ,为在农村稳定低生育率提供新的思路和途径。     

Replacing eye trackers in ongoing studies: A comparison of eye-tracking data quality between the Tobii Pro TX300 and the Tobii Pro Spectrum

The Tobii Pro TX300 is a popular eye tracker in developmental eye-tracking research, yet it is no longer manufactured. If a TX300 breaks down, it may have to be replaced. The data quality of the replacement eye tracker may differ from that of the TX300, which may affect the experimental outcome measures. This is problematic for longitudinal and multi-site studies, and for researchers replacing eye trackers between studies. We, therefore, ask how the TX300 and its successor, the Tobii Pro Spectrum, compare in terms of eye-tracking data quality. Data quality—operationalized through precision, accuracy, and data loss—was compared between eye trackers for three age groups (around 5-months, 10-months, and 3-years). Precision was better for all gaze position signals obtained with the Spectrum in comparison to the TX300. Accuracy of the Spectrum was higher for the 5-month-old and 10-month-old children. For the three-year-old children, accuracy was similar across both eye trackers. Gaze position signals from the Spectrum exhibited lower proportions of data loss, and the duration of the data loss periods tended to be shorter. In conclusion, the Spectrum produces gaze position signals with higher data quality, especially for the younger infants. Implications for data analysis are discussed.     

Time Use Choices and Volunteer Labour Supply

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - This paper examines time allocation and satisfaction with time use of volunteers and non-volunteers. Using data from the...     

On the detection of transitive clusters in undirected networks

A network cluster is defined as a set of nodes with ‘strong’ within group ties and ‘weak’ between group ties. Most clustering methods focus on finding groups of ‘densely connected’ nodes, where the dyad (or tie between two nodes) serves as the building block for forming clusters. However, since the unweighted dyad cannot distinguish strong relationships from weak ones, it then seems reasonable to consider an alternative building block, i.e. one involving more than two nodes. In the simplest case, one can consider the triad (or three nodes), where the fully connected triad represents the basic unit of transitivity in an undirected network. In this effort we propose a clustering framework for finding highly transitive subgraphs in an undirected/unweighted network, where the fully connected triad (or triangle configuration) is used as the building block for forming clusters. We apply our methodology to four real networks with encouraging results. Monte Carlo simulation results suggest that, on average, the proposed method yields good clustering performance on synthetic benchmark graphs, relative to other popular methods.     

分析的马克思主义在当代——威廉姆·H·肖教授访谈录

美国圣荷塞州立大学哲学系威廉姆·H·肖(William H.Shaw)教授在上世纪80年代与英国的柯亨(G.A.Cohen)、北美的罗默(John E. Roemer)、爱尔斯特(Jon Elster)、伍德(Ellen M. Wood)、莱特(E. O. Wright)等著名学者共同开创了英语世界中分析学派的马克思主义研究,出版了一批影响广泛的重要著作,并组成了一个有着明确宗旨、纲领和活动规范的学术团体,该流派的异军突起遂成为西方马克思主义理论研究中的一道引人注目的景观。肖教授上个世纪80-90年代在英语世界重要学术刊物上发表了关于马克思主义研究的几十篇论文,他在1979年出版的《马克思的历史理论》(Marx’Theoryon History)一书于1989年被译成中文,编入重庆出版社出版的国外马克思主义研究丛书,已为中国广大学者所熟悉。2007年7月25-29日,肖教授应邀参加吉林大学哲学:基础理论与当代问题国际学术研讨会,在会上发表了题为《马克思主义、商业道德、公司企业的社会责任》的演讲。会议期间,吉林大学哲学系师生邀请肖教授以分析的马克思主义在当代为题进行了专题访谈,这里刊发的即是此次访谈的记录,由沈...     

How Do Disaster Characteristics Influence Risk Perception?

The main purpose of this study is to examine how risk perception is influenced by the type of disaster (flood or landslide) and victim characteristics. The data reported here are based on the National Risk Perception Survey (NRPS) that was administered for the victims and the general public in Taiwan in 2004. In that year, many towns in Taiwan were seriously affected by floods and landslides, resulting in huge economic losses and fatalities. The primary findings are: (1) the victims and the general public are concerned about the different potential hazards that might affect their residential area, (2) the negative associations between the sense of controllability and the perceived impact is high for landslide victims, but not for flood victims, and (3) disaster type, gender, and previously experienced disasters are good predictors of victims' attitudes toward natural disasters.     

A Performance Measure for Software Reuse Projects

The efficient development of software has become a critical factor to the success of many organizations. Significant competitive advantage can be realized by reducing the time to complete software development, while maintaining or improving quality levels. Project management activities, including the measurement of performance at the level of the project, can help the organization to both control projects and learn from experience. Traditionally, the productivity of a software development project has been measured as the complexity of code produced per unit of labor involved. An increasing number of organizations, however, are adopting the practice of software reuse, and under such conditions, such a traditional measure of productivity does not fully capture all the relevant elements of the reuse-driven development environment. This research develops a new performance measure that considers four major components of performance: productivity associated with development of new code, productivity associated with the reuse of previously written code, quality of the reuse decision, and relative value of reuse to the company. To illustrate the feasibility of the measure, a real-world productivity assessment is presented for an example company, and related implementation issues are discussed.     

An Integrational Framework of Organizational Moral Development,Legitimacy, and Corporate Responsibility: A Longitudinal,Intersectoral Analysis of Citizenship Reports

In this article, we outline a unique conceptual framework connecting legitimacy types (Suchman, 1995 ), theories of corporate responsibility (Brummer, 1991 ), and levels of organizational moral development based on Kohlberg's ( 1971 ) moral development stages. In addition, based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) categories, we found empirical support for our framework, by content analyzing Fortune 500 corporate citizenship reports from four different industries (i.e., chemicals, motor vehicle/auto parts, pharmaceutical, and utilities), at three data points (i.e., 2002, 2007, and 2012). Our analysis indicates that motor vehicle/auto parts and chemicals industries are at a higher developmental level, and portray moral legitimacy along with social demandingness corporate responsibility in recent years; while the pharmaceutical and utilities sectors are at a lower developmental level, showing signs of pragmatic legitimacy, alongside classical and stakeholder corporate responsibility strategies. This article contributes to the current organizational moral development literature by developing and finding empirical support of a conceptual framework of organizational moral development, legitimacy, and corporate responsibility. In particular, our findings provide a deeper understanding of the differences in moral development levels across four focal industries over a 10‐year timespan.