The complexity of diversity and importance for equitable philanthropy

The current U.S. climate of racial and social injustice has prompted a renewed call for diverse and equitable ways to rethink community philanthropy. Community foundations are vehicles for community philanthropy which offer vast benefits for social improvement and community development. The board of directors ensures these organizations fulfill their mission, making decisions on funding priorities and holding the organization functionally and fiscally responsible. Drawing on constructs of diversity and representative bureaucracy and a case study of Florida community foundations, we suggest that diversity is understood in different ways and the presence of diverse board members may be linked to advancing the interests of diverse communities and in achieving outcomes that assist in the needs of certain social groups. Increased understanding of diversity can improve foundation and philanthropic effectiveness and bring broader social change by promoting equity and social justice among community‐based philanthropic organizations.     

“Facing” leaders: Facial expression and leadership perception

This experimental study investigated the effect of a leader's expression of happy versus nervous emotions on subsequent perceptions of leadership and ratings of traits associated with implicit leadership theories (ILTs). Being fast and universally understood, emotions are ideal stimuli for investigating the dynamic effects of ILTs, which were understood in this study in terms of the constraints that expressed emotions impose on the connectionist networks that activate ILTs. The experimental design contrasted videotaped and still frame presentations of a leadership event; however, this methodological factor had no significant effects and analyses were thus collapsed across this factor. Key findings were that the expression of a happy versus nervous emotion at the end of a problem-solving sequence had multiple effects: happy emotions resulted in higher leadership ratings, higher trait ratings, greater correlations among trait ratings, and greater dependence of trait ratings on leadership perceptions. An exploratory model suggested that leadership impressions mediated the effects of facial emotions on trait ratings. The discussion further links the study findings with interpretations in terms of ILTs and many types of constraints on these cognitive structures. It also suggests ways to integrate these ideas with advances in neuroscience research.     

笔谈六篇：法理学的反思——法理学的性质与当下中国法理学的流派

孟涛在《法学的性质：技术、科学或哲学？》一文中指出,中国法学目前只是停留在技术化的第一步,离真正的技术化还有很长的路;社科法学有助于了解中国法律实施的真实状况,有很大的扩展领域和发展空间;法律本身是否合理,需要进行深层次的哲学思考,特别是要进行古今中外思想上的深层次对话。鲁楠则从比较法视野进行反思,眼下的中国法学流派之争究竟在争论什么？宋旭光则试图从流派之争的背后问题出发,明晰法理学学科性质并探寻法理学研究的进路。杨天江则告诫自然法理论研究者,出于对自然法理论研究尚未迈过初级阶段的原因,不仅不应介入法教义学与社科法学之争,还应主动避免被迫的卷入。刘振宇对自然法之是否介入当下的学派之争则持另一种观点,现有流派都不足以将带有政治因子甚至于以政治话语为主的泛法律信息转化为法律话语,而自然法理论则可,从而推动形成中国法理学第三种智识。黄涛从古典法学的视角相对超然的审视流派之争,即认为需要适度地超越一种经验性的考察法律现象的方法,探寻人类应过什么样的法律生活,建构何种法律世界,以找到真正支撑规范生活的内在动力源泉。     

我国股东代表诉讼实用性的经济学分析

设置股东代表诉讼的目的是为了完善公司治理,强化股东的经营监督和抑制违法的作用。但由于股东提起代表诉讼是为了公司和全体股东的利益,如何降低原告股东的诉讼成本对实现股东代表诉讼的立法目的具有重要的意义。     

生命的定义和生命起源的充分必要条件

现有的对生命起源和本质的各种论述以及生命的各种定义都没有找到生命起源的充分必要条件。自然条件下能实现自复制的比较稳定的大分子物质结构才是生命产生的充分必要条件,自复制能够解决生命的复杂结构产生的概率问题。有了正反馈,进化的世界观才能成立,才能战胜热力学第二定理引导的退化的世界观。     

国外儿童语言研究综述

国外儿童语言研究源于儿童心理研究,历经了心理学、语言学双重取向的研究和儿童语言研究的独立学科等过程。期间的研究成果丰富,揭示了儿童语言词汇、语法、语义、语用习得和发展的特点。     

Risk factors for child maltreatment in South Korea: An investigation of a nationally representative sample

This study investigated the risk factors associated with the occurrence of child physical and psychological abuse in South Korea based on the ecological theory of child maltreatment. A subsample of 3‐ to 18‐year‐old children from “A Study on the Current State of Child Abuse and Neglect,” a nationally representative study on child abuse and neglect, was utilized for secondary data analysis. The sample was divided into two age groups (third graders in elementary school and below and fourth graders and above). We utilized hierarchical logistic regression for each age group separately to analyze the data. The variables at each level of the system (i.e., ontogenic development, microsystem, and exosystem) were entered into the model in sequential order. The results showed the common risk factors for both age groups are the caregiver's experience of abuse in childhood, the child's problem behavior, exposure to domestic violence, community size, and informal social control. The child's age was also significant in both groups but in the opposite direction. Social support was a significant predictor for the younger age group only, while the caregiver's level of education was significant for the older age group only. Implications for future research and practice are discussed based on the study results.     

Sexual Orientation as a Peripheral Cue in Advertising: Effects of Models’ Sexual Orientation,Argument Strength,and Involvement on Responses to Magazine Ads

This study examines how sexual orientation of couples featured in magazine advertisements affects heterosexual viewers’ responses using the elaboration likelihood model as a framework. A 3 × 2 × 2 × 3 experiment tested effects of sexual orientation, argument strength, involvement, and attitudes toward homosexuality on heterosexuals’ attitudes toward the couple, advertisement, brand, and product, purchase intentions, and recall. Results indicate that consumers were accepting of ads with lesbian portrayals. Participants showed more negative attitudes toward gay male portrayals, but attitudes toward heterosexual and lesbian ads were similar. This effect was moderated by participants’ attitudes toward homosexuals. Low-involvement consumers showed more negative attitudes toward homosexual portrayals than toward heterosexual portrayals, indicating that sexual orientation may have served as a peripheral cue negatively impacting attitudes toward the couple and ad under low elaboration. These effects were not observed for attitudes toward the brand and product, purchase intentions, or recall.     

西方女性主义翻译理论述评

西方女性主义与翻译研究的结合在上世纪 70年代开始便给传统翻译理论和实践观念带来了强烈的冲击 ,产生了丰硕的理论成果。然而与国内文艺理论界对女性主义理论的广泛介绍和深入研究相比 ,女性主义翻译理论的介绍明显滞后 ,与当前国内深入讨论的后殖民翻译研究的情形也无法相提并论 ,实质性的深入研究更是罕见。尝试对西方女性主义翻译研究进行全面地介绍 ,以便能引起国内译学界的重视 ,促进这一方面的深入研究     

论全国人大代表比之重构

我国全国人民代表大会的代表数额分配的比例没有法定约束,地区与职业代表之间代表比的差别悬殊大。为了克服上述弊端,全国人大代表制度改革的方向是以废除职业代表制,落实公民实质平等选举权,照顾少数民族和人口较少区域为原则,废除预留代表惯例,完善华侨与港澳台代表之选举。