Sex Related Factors in the Perception of Threatening Facial Expressions

This study replicated and extended previously reported sex differences involving both viewer and target in the recognition of threatening facial expressions. Based on the assumption that the evolved cognitive mechanisms mediating anger recognition would have been designed by natural selection to operate quickly in the interests of survival, brief tachistoscopic presentation of stimulus photographs was used. Additionally, in contrast to prior published studies, the statistical methods of signal detection research were used to control for the confounding effects of non-random guessing. The main hypothesis, that anger posed by males would be more accurately perceived than anger posed by females, was supported. A secondary hypothesis, that female-posed anger would be more accurately perceived by women than by men, received partial support. Testosterone levels, measured inferentially in terms of diurnal cycles, failed to show the hypothesized positive relationship to accuracy of anger perception.     

浅析汉语中表因果关系句子的英译法

由于英汉两种语言的差异,汉语中表因果关系的句子翻译成英文有不同的译法,除了采用原因状语从句的结构,还可以采用时间状语从句、地点状语从句、定语从句、不定式短语、介词短语、独立主格结构等多种不同的表达方式。     

《大藏经》词语札记

本文解释了五个汉译佛经《大藏经》中的词语:消息、宁可、巨细、障石疑、缭戾,并一一加以溯源。     

汉语不平等同义并列式双音词研究

目前,语法学界对汉语同义并列式双音词构词法的分析只到"并列"为止,没有进一步深入探讨这两个语素是怎样的并列状态。笔者认为同义并列式双音词的两个语素地位并不是绝对平等的,据此,可以把不平等同义并列式双音词分为三种类型———后限定式、前限定式、附加式。前、后限定式的不平等同义并列分别与偏正、动补结构在表意上具有相同的作用,这种跨结构的表意上的一致性,归根到底是为了适应汉语双音化和表意精确化的要求。     

“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.     

It's written all over their faces: Preschoolers' emotion understanding

Emotion understanding is a multifaceted construct made up of several components. To identify how several common components of emotion understanding relate to one another, five emotion understanding tasks were compared within the same group of children. Fifty‐four preschool children (M = 3.81 years, SD = 0.40) were asked to display the typical facial expression of six emotions after hearing their corresponding emotion label. They were then read six vignettes and asked to: “use your face to show how [the protagonist] would feel,” provide an emotion label for the main character, and “choose a picture of a face that would look like [the main character].” Finally, they were asked to provide a label for emotions presented to them in photographs. For all tasks, six emotions were examined: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. With the exception of the two modeling tasks, results show correlations among the emotion understanding tasks. There was a significant interaction between task and emotion category for emotion understanding accuracy. However, there was some consistency in the pattern of discrete emotion categorization emergence across the tasks. Additionally, accuracy scores (representing emotion understanding) across tasks were not equivalent. Findings are discussed in the broader context of emotion understanding.     

论《齐民要术》新生复合词中的同义词

《齐民要术》是中古时期口语性较强的一部农业科技著作，书中使用了较多复合词，有的复合词意义相近或相关，彼此聚合成群，形成了不同的同义词词场。这些同义词词场中的复合词在构词上都有相同的特点：即构成复合词的两个语素单用时意义相近或相关，这样的复合词应是当时的语言社团根据已有的并列式构词法创造的新词。在汉语词汇的历时发展中，《齐民要术》中使用的同义复合词呈现出不同的发展结果：由曾经常用的单音词作语素构成的复合词或易于通过隐喻机制形成新义的复合词使用频率相对较高，生命力相对较强，在竞争中也相对较容易发展成汉语中的常用复合词；使用频率低或难以产生隐喻引申义的复合词很容易退出语言交际领域，从而成为汉语词汇历史发展中某阶段的陈迹。     

胡塞尔“本质机遇性的表述”探析

在胡塞尔的《逻辑研究》中,表述处于对指示的区别与对直观充实的准备这个中介地位上,而其中本质机遇性的表述更有着特殊的性质。为了解释这些特殊性,就需要规定其内在的含义结构与功能关系。而在德里达看来,这反映了胡塞尔的在场形而上学立场。     

超越性别的女性生命体验——析老舍《月牙儿》的女性意识

从女性主义文学批评的角度来研读就会发现,《月牙儿》小说文本充满了女性意识。具体表现在文本的情绪化结构、女性话语表达、男性缺席结构、女性的自省以及性欲等方面。作家老舍从小生活在社会的底层,以其对贫困的独特理解,他所呈现的女性形象既在显示下层妓女生活悲惨境遇的同时,又表现了强烈的女性独立意识。主人公的独立精神被现实的黑暗所吞没使小说的悲剧性达到了高潮。     

从认知视角看英汉词语的语义变化趋势

语言在很大程度上受思维习惯和文化内涵的影响.然而,在世界文化朝着多元化发展的进程中,不同文化间的频繁接触促进了文化的趋同,而文化的趋同又必然引起词语的语义变化.文章旨在通过词语的示例分析比较,探讨人类语言的共性和个性,从而证明英汉两种语言的词语语义随着文化的趋同所出现的同一变化趋势.