“Female Virginity Complex” Untied: Young Chinese Women's Experience of Virginity Loss and Sexual Coercion

This article selects the critical moment of virginity loss in young Beijing women's lives to look at the meaning of sexual coercion in dating relationships. The authors observed that many young Chinese women presented their first experience of sex as containing some elements of sexual coercion that were being described as “minor,” do not involve obvious physical force, but are unpleasant and regretful experiences of virginity loss. This article contributes to a new understanding of virginity loss and sexual coercion in China and sheds light on the social transformation of sexuality from the Maoist era to the postsocialist era. Implications for social work practice and research in China are also discussed.     

Bayesian influence diagnostics in radiocarbon dating

Linear models constitute the primary statistical technique for any experimental science. A major topic in this area is the detection of influential subsets of data, that is, of observations that are influential in terms of their effect on the estimation of parameters in linear regression or of the total population parameters. Numerous studies exist on radiocarbon dating which propose a value consensus and remove possible outliers after the corresponding testing. An influence analysis for the value consensus from a Bayesian perspective is developed in this article.     

当代广告形象与受众心理研究

在市场经济占主导地位的社会中,商品已经不仅仅是商品,而是成为了某种形象的象征,当你买进一个商品的时候,也就意味着你买进了一种观念、一种形象。在商品消费时代,受众侧重的是经济成本,而在形象消费时代,人们的消费心理则从侧重经济成本转向侧重心理成本。本文试图通过对比、分析大陆、香港、台湾三地的广告形象与受众心理接受状况,找出它们之间的差异而在这一点上又有殊途同归的例证。     

民国时期上海人的休闲生活——以1927-1937年《申报》广告为中心的考察

休闲生活是城市社会生活的重要内容,研究民国时期上海人的休闲生活对于我们了解民国时期城市的社会生活和现代化发展历程有重要意义。《申报》广告为我们透视当时上海的休闲生活提供了一个很好的窗口。     

Relationship Preferences Among Gay and Lesbian Online Daters: Individual and Contextual Influences

There is currently little knowledge about what gay men and lesbians seek in a romantic relationship. This study extends the literature on gay men and lesbians' partnership preferences by engaging in the first large‐scale empirical study of the long‐term dating intentions and monogamy beliefs of gay and lesbian online daters across 53 regions in 8 European countries (N = 24,598). Looking at profile and preference information, the authors examined both individual and contextual determinants in a series of multilevel logistic regression analyses. They show that lesbians give more importance to monogamy but show less interest in starting a long‐term relationship. The data also reveal the importance of life course aspects such as relationship history and presence of children. Finally, the authors empirically demonstrate that social tolerance and legal recognition of same‐sex unions are associated with higher long‐term dating intentions and stronger monogamy beliefs.     

断代诗学的突破与重构——评吴井泉的《20世纪40年代中国现代三大诗学研究》

吴井泉的《20世纪40年代中国现代三大诗学研究》通过对延安现实主义诗学、浪漫主义倾向的七月派诗学和九叶派现代主义诗学的理论形态、内涵、价值,以及相互间并峙、互补关系的研究,系统而深入地把握上世纪40年代中国现代三大诗学的观念、思想与精神,在断代诗学研究中具有相当重要的突破和重构之意义。     

Craigslist Exposed: The Internet-Mediated Hookup

This research examines how people advertise themselves on Craigslist. The authors develop a framework that highlights 13 resources that heterosexual and homosexual men and women offer in Craigslist advertisements. The results reveal that many heterosexual advertisers offer and seek similar resources on Craigslist, whereas gay men primarily use Craigslist to seek and offer sex. About one-fourth of homosexual advertisers are in committed relationships. The authors build on this finding by exploring the extent to which married men use Craigslist for “hookups.” The authors show the extent to which married men solicit responses to 6 different advertisements for sexual encounters that range from safe to high risk.     

爱的算法殖民化:人工智能时代约会程序算法面临的伦理挑战及其应对策略

晚近十年,人工智能算法获得了长足发展,智能算法被视为解决人类问题的一个全新进路。与此同时,在人类主义的框架中,爱情通常被视为人类生活中最亲密的情感,但它现在越来越多地被少数程序员用人工智能来进行控制或操纵。在当代世界中,许多约会平台正在设计所谓的智能算法来为用户识别更多的潜在匹配对象。这些由人工智能驱动的配对系统通过丰富的数据驱动,不仅能够预测用户可能喜欢什么类型的对象,而且还可以深刻影响人们选择伴侣的方式。对此,基于哈贝马斯的“生活世界的殖民化理论”,批判性地探讨了将浪漫决策委托给算法的潜在影响以及可能由此引发的伦理挑战。通过对Tinder等约会应用程序使用算法的现实分析,指出爱情生活世界正在被殖民化,因为在线约会算法侵入了人们的浪漫关系,以至于浪漫关系中的交往行为被算法的技术规则所取代。为了应对算法殖民化引发的伦理难题,要着眼于从个体维度上弥补算法思维的固有逻辑缺陷,从技术维度上优化算法模型与标准设计,从企业以及约会应用程序设计者的维度上赋予爱情关系中个体更多的自主选择权,据此来探寻未来理想爱情关系“去算法殖民化”的可能性通路。     

Neighborhood Norms,Disadvantage, and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration

Most theoretical treatments of intimate partner violence (IPV) focus on individual‐level processes. More recently, scholars have begun to examine the role of macrolevel factors. Results of that research indicate that social ties facilitate the diffusion of cultural norms—including tolerance of deviance/violence—across neighborhoods. Yet the influence of the neighborhood normative climate extends beyond norms regarding the use of violence, shaping cultural understanding about dating and the opposite sex. Using data from the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS), the current investigation examines the multilevel association between dating norms and IPV perpetration among a large, diverse sample of adolescents and young adults. Results indicate that individuals’ liberal dating attitudes are associated with IPV perpetration. Furthermore, this effect varies across levels of neighborhood disadvantage.     

“Where Have All the Good Men Gone?” Gendered Interactions in Online Dating

This article explores gendered patterns of online dating and their implications for heterosexual union formation. Using 6 months of online dating data from a midsized Southwestern city (N = 8,259 men, 6,274 women), the authors found that men and women tend to send messages to the most socially desirable alters in the dating market regardless of their own desirability levels. They also found that male initiators connect with more desirable partners than men who wait to be contacted, but female initiators connect with equally desirable partners as women who wait to be contacted. Female‐initiated contacts are also more than twice as likely as male‐initiated contacts to result in a connection, but women send 4 times fewer messages than men. Finally, the authors compared partner desirability levels over repeated exchanges and concluded that couple similarities are more likely to result from relationship termination (i.e., nonreciprocity) than initial homophilous preferences.