“Why Aren’t You a Sassy Little Thing”: The Effects of Robot-Enacted Guilt Trips on Credibility and Consensus in a Negotiation

Robots are becoming increasingly popular in social applications and have demonstrated effectiveness in a variety of contexts such as education, health, task management, and other complex cooperative roles. The purpose of this study was to examine human–robot interaction in a nonassistive environment: a negotiation scenario. Specifically, the authors examined what effect message appeals (guilt trip, no guilt trip) and robot agency (principal, agent) had on the negotiation outcomes and perceptions of credibility. Results indicated a significant main effect of agency and an interaction effect between agency and guilt messaging on perceptions of robot credibility such that participants rated a robot agent employing no guilt trips as more credible than one negotiating as principal or one utilizing guilt trips. Neither guilt nor agency had a significant effect on the overall concession of the negotiation task.     

She’s Hot,for a Politician: The Impact of Objectifying Commentary on Perceived Credibility of Female Candidates

The way female politicians are discussed in traditional and new media may contribute to the way individuals evaluate those candidates. Objectification theory suggests that framing individuals in a way that reduces them to their physical characteristics is detrimental to perceived agency. To that end, an experiment was designed to determine the impact of objectifying comments on the evaluation of female candidates. Researchers created two Facebook feeds discussing a hypothetical female candidate. For both feeds, the discussion focused on the candidate’s policy credentials, with one feed containing commentary on the female candidate’s body. Aspects of credibility and suitability for office were impacted by objectifying commentary, implying the need for future research directed at the specific impact objectification has on candidate evaluation.     

Facial Similarity Mitigates the Persuasive Effects of Source Bias: An Evolutionary Explanation for Kinship and Susceptibility to Influence

This research examined how the interaction between a source's facial similarity to message targets and communicated bias affects audience persuadability. We used an evolutionary explanation to hypothesize that biased sources would elicit less favorable attitudes than unbiased sources for dissimilar sources, but that this difference would be absent for similar sources. Predictions were supported by results from a 2 (facial similarity) × 2 (source bias) experiment, in which an unrecognizable percentage of participants' photographs (n = 94) was digitally morphed with a source's face to act as a kinship cue. Further, structural equation modeling demonstrated a direct effect of facial similarity on attitude independent of mediation by source liking and appraisals, providing further evidence that susceptibility to influence from facially similar sources may have evolutionary origins.     

Instructor Credibility as a Mediator of Instructors’ Compulsive Communication and Student Communication Satisfaction in the College Classroom

The purpose of this investigation was twofold: (a) from a dialogic pedagogy perspective, to determine the possible negative association between instructors’ compulsive communication and student communication satisfaction; and (b) using Expectancy Violations Theory as a framework, to test the extent to which instructor credibility mediated the negative association between compulsive communication and student communication satisfaction. We found that students’ perceptions of instructors’ compulsive communication is linked to lower levels of student communication satisfaction. Importantly, results also showed that instructor credibility tempers the negative association between instructors’ compulsive communication and student communication satisfaction.     

论文学翻译过程中顺应性的应用

在翻译的过程中译者应谊具有很强的跨文化意识,担负起不同文化之间交流的桥粱作用.翻译过程中的顺应是,在使用目的语文化阐释源发语文化的过程中,译者使自己的翻译活动及思维运作顺应于源发语文化和目的语文化双方的认知环境.本文主要从语言结构的不同层面即节奏、语音、词汇、句子和文化联想等方面论述文学翻译过程中顺应性的运用.     

宋代厢军兵源述论

宋代厢军兵源多样。具体而言有：镇兵、收编军队、募兵、罪犯等。宋延通过此多种方式补充其兵源,使其保持一定数量,以发挥应有之作用。     

Calculating trust in domain analysis: Theoretical trust model

In recent decades, more information has become increasingly available on the Web. Every user can actively participate in the generation and exchange of information. Investigating the quality of user-generated content (UGC) has therefore become a necessity and an ever-increasing challenge. In collaborative environments where users collect, share and build a knowledge base, trust is an important factor. If, for example, we as users trust UGC on the Web, this influences our interaction with this content. The aim of our research is to propose a model for the evaluation of trust in UGC. Based on the available research results, we define a model for measuring trust in collaborative environments. Our approach is based on three dimensions: stability, credibility and quality. These three concerns are combined to create a trusted translator. We use a real-world data set of the social annotation platform Genius to calculate the value of our trust in an annotation. Based on this case study, we show which insights can be gained by calculating the trust in such an environment. When information has specific qualities, our approach will enable the user to better determine which information offers the highest level of trust.     

敦煌西晋画像砖中白象内涵辨析

关于敦煌佛爷庙湾西晋画像砖墓中的白象画像砖,笔者曾提出其带有佛教文化色彩。郑岩先生以商周、汉代常见象这一艺术题材为据,认为象是传统题材。笔者从解析不同时期所谓传统题材的不同文化内涵入手,认为白象并不属于传统题材。同时其时史籍中白象的阙如及在佛典中的重要地位,表明白象这一艺术题材的文化渊源具有唯一性,因而白象只能源自佛典,其所承载的佛教文化信息是毋庸置疑的。     

基于二次场算法的CSAMT二维正演研究

本文采用基于二次场的有限单元算法开展了二维可控源音频大地电磁CSAMT的数值模拟研究。研究工作从麦克斯韦方程组出发,导出了电阻率异常的二次场方程;采用了基于二叉树结构的三角单元剖分,推导了双线性的单元钢度矩阵表达式;对电阻率异常模型进行了试算。实践表明,二次场算法无需对场源区域剖分,可有效的减小计算区间,提高了计算效率;与总场算法相比,二次场算法边界处理简单;二次场算法有利于提高计算精度,解决了低频计算不稳定问题。     

开源软件在教育信息化中的应用研究

阐述了OSS的现状及发展趋势,对其在教育信息化过程中的应用优势进行了分析,并对OSS的具体应用进行了实证研究,最后指出了OSS存在的一些问题。