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Promoting Open Science via grassroots network in a developing country
No full textPlenary presentation by Dr. Hu Chuan-Peng for the 2024 SORTEE Conference happening in October
Promoting Open Science via grassroots network in a developing country
No full textPlenary presentation by Dr. Hu Chuan-Peng for the 2024 SORTEE Conference happening in October
An Extended Chinese Social Evaluative Word List
No full textSocial evaluation, i.e., people’s views of self, others, and groups, is ubiquitous and embedded in our language. In turn, social evaluative words are used intensively in studies of human social evaluation. However, standardized Chinese word lists for social evaluation are under-developed; the only available word lists are based on the big-two model of social evaluation (i.e., agency and warmth) and cover small numbers of words. To fill the gap, we conducted a survey with a relatively large sample (n = 1270, 50% female) and a large number of words (1908) that might describe extended social evaluative dimensions: appearance, socioeconomic status, sociability, competence, and morality. The participants rated the extent to which each word described a certain social evaluation dimension and how positive/negative each word was. Based on this dataset, we selected words that dominantly describe one of the five above-mentioned dimensions. The final word list has 1040 words, including 245 appearance words (143 positive, 11 neutral, 91 negative), 108 socioeconomic status words (36 positive, 2 neutral, 70 negative), 93 sociability words (53 positive, 5 neutral, 35 negative), 261 competence words (185 positive, 4 neutral, 72 negative), and 333 morality words (149 positive, 1 neutral, 183 negative). This word list provides an extended Chinese social evaluative word list and will serve as a useful resource for researchers in social psychology, linguistics, sociology, and computational social science
The understanding and usage of “老道” and “老到”
No full textThe main objective of this study is to investigate whether the usage and interpretation of the term "老道 (lăodào, originally meaning Taoist)" today by most young Chinese adults has deviated from its original meaning as defined by dictionary. More specifically, is its meaning conflated with that of "老到 (lăodào, meaning someone is experienced, considerate, thoughtful, and/or thorough)" because of them shared pronunciation. This study will served as a supplementary evidence for the data quality of a larger study which aimed at developing a Chinese social evaluative word list (Li, Chen, & Chuan-Peng, 2024
Profiling the Chinese Participants in Psychological Science: Non-WEIRD but Not Representative
No full textPsychological science aims at understanding the human mind and behavior, but it primarily relies on participants from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic regions, i.e., the WEIRD problem. This lack of diversity and representativeness of participants compromises the generalizability of psychological science. To address this issue, large-scale international collaborative projects have been initiated, and more data have been collected from non-WEIRD regions. However, it is unknown whether participants from non-WEIRD regions can represent their local population. In this preregistered report, we depicted the demographic profile of Chinese participants reported in 1, 000 empirical studies (n = 554, 794) published in five mainstream Chinese psychological journals and in 27 large-scale international collaborative projects (n = 29, 006, accounting for 2.12% of all participants). We found that age and sex were the most reported demographic variables, and other aspects of participants were less reported. The available demographic information revealed that Chinese participants were not representative of the population: most were young and well-educated people from east coast provinces (with the exception of Hubei province, which is located in central China). The demographic profile of Chinese participants in psychology is similar to their counterparts in many other countries and regions, suggesting the globalization of young and highly educated participants in psychological science. Together, our findings indicate that problems of representativeness are deeply entrenched in global psychological science and require coordinated cross-sector efforts
A Multiverse Assessment of the Reliability of the Self Matching Task as a Measurement of the Self-Prioritization Effect
No full textThe Self Matching Task (SMT) is widely used to investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying the Self-Prioritization Effect (SPE), wherein performance is enhanced for self- associated stimuli compared to other-associated ones. Although the SMT robustly elicits the SPE, there is a lack of quantifying the reliability of this paradigm. This ignorance is problematic, given the prevalence of the reliability paradox in cognitive tasks: many well-established cognitive tasks demonstrate relatively low reliability when used to evaluate individual differences, despite exhibiting replicable effects at the group level. To fill this gap, this preregistered study investigated the reliability of SPE derived from the SMT using a multiverse approach, combining all possible indicators and baselines reported in the literature. We first examined the robustness of 24 SPE measures across 42 datasets (N = 2250) using a meta- analytical approach. We then calculated the Split-Half Reliability (r) and Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC2) for each SPE measure. Our findings revealed a robust group-level SPE across datasets. However, when evaluating individual differences, SPE indices derived from Reaction Time (RT) and Efficiency exhibited relatively higher, compared to other SPE indices, but still unsatisfied split-half reliability (approximately 0.5). For the reliability across multiple time points, as assessed by ICC2, RT and Efficiency demonstrated moderate levels of test-retest reliability (close to 0.5). These findings revealed the presence of a reliability paradox in the context of SMT-based SPE assessment. We discussed the implications of how to enhance individual-level reliability using this paradigm for future study design
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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