The catcher in the lie: The role of emotions and epistemic judgments in changing students’ misconceptions and attitudes in a post-truth era

We extend previous theoretical and empirical work by examining the role that emotions and epistemic judgments play when learning from different refutation plus persuasive and expository plus persuasive texts. We examined how variations in messages designed to change misconceptions and attitudes about genetically modified foods (GMFs) might differentially impact the extent to which individuals engage in epistemic judgments; the emotions individuals experience during learning; and, how epistemic judgments and emotions might facilitate or constrain conceptual and attitudinal change. One hundred twenty-five undergraduate university students were randomly assigned to one of four text conditions: refutation plus positive persuasive text, refutation plus negative persuasive text, expository plus positive persuasive text, or expository plus negative persuasive text. Students were asked to think and emote out loud during learning to capture epistemic judgments and emotions as they occurred in real time. After the learning session, students also self-reported the emotions they experienced during learning. Results revealed that students who were given positive persuasive texts experienced more positive emotions (both intensity and frequency) during learning, whereas those who were given negative persuasive texts experienced more negative emotions (frequency) during learning. Students who were given positive persuasive texts engaged in more epistemic judgments and changed more misconceptions about GMFs compared to students in the other three text conditions. Finally, epistemic judgments were significant positive predictors of conceptual and attitudinal change, and both positive emotions and negative emotions predicted attitudinal change. Implications for theories of conceptual and attitudinal change are discussed.     

关于平均指标若干问题的探讨

目前统计界在对平均指标的概念、数理基础及应用分析等方面的阐述还存在一些疑点。重新界定平均指标的概念、阐明统计平均数与数学平均数的区别、进一步明确调和平均数的应用场合，是非常必要的。     

齐海峰竞技成绩的灰色关联分析及GM(1,N)动态协调模型的研究

采用文献资料法和灰色关联度分析法,对我国优秀男子十项全能运动员齐海峰1999-2002年十项全能的比赛成绩进行统计与分析,运用GM(1,N)动态协调模型对其在总成绩不断提高的各个阶段诸因素间相互联系、相互影响的辩证发展关系进行多方位、多层次研究。结果表明:100米跑、铅球和跳远是影响齐海峰专项成绩的关键因素,其关联度分别为0.8928、0.7443和0.7571,研究还发现,齐海峰在成绩提高的每一个阶段中,系统处于不稳定和非协调发展,其中速度和速度——力量性项目落后是导致系统不稳定和非协调发展的主要因素。     

隐喻在汉语新词义产生中的生成机制

隐喻是构造词语新义中的最重要最根本的方法，新义的产生往往是人们以熟识的某一领域的经验为基础．去说明理解另一领域的经验，从而形成了一个隐喻的概念系统，引申出新的意义。     

外语专业学生学习外国文学的优势与困境

外语专业学生研究外国文学具有双语双向交流的特征,这是他们的优势.但他们母语和文学基础的薄弱使他们陷入困境,因此,在外语系或外语院校增加文学课时,加强文学和文学理论与批判的学习是当务之急。     

学校体育现代化进程中的均衡发展问题研究

学校体育均衡发展对个体、学校与社会都具有特殊意义,学校体育均衡发展在整个21世纪的学校教育中占有重要的地位,要客观地面对制约其均衡发展的因素,以实事求是,从实际出发,发现问题,解决问题的态度,全面实施学校体育均衡发展的战略。     

马克思主义的生命力和邓小平理论的时代价值

马克思主义是充满无限生命力的科学。马克思主义所以具有与时俱进的发展本质和发展要求，最重要的是依据三个基本要素：一是时代性、二是实践性、三是科学方法。这三个要素，在邓小平理论中得以充分展示。这是邓小平理论所以成为马克思主义发展的新阶段，所以具有强大生命力和深远时代价值的最重要原因。     

马克思“人化自然观”初探——以《德意志意识形态》为例

随着社会政治、经济、文化的全面发展，人类面临的生态环境问题的严重性迫使我们重新审视人与自然的关系，反思我们的自然观。通过探索马克思的“人化自然观”，可以看出，马克思解决环境问题的思路和方法对我们解决社会主义现代化进程中的环境问题具有重要的指导意义。     

Sexual Harassment as [Dys]Functional Process: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis

Researchers have approached the study of sexual harassment as though it were dysfunctional. However, a feminist standpoint theory analysis would suggest that it functions differently for men and women. A study using discussion groups and stimulated recall interviews was conducted in a large health care organization. A thematic analysis revealed a primary theme of sexual harassment as a [dys]functional process. For the male participants, sexual behavior served as a coping mechanism for stress, as a form of therapeutic care, and to create and demonstrate camaraderie. For the women participants, sexual behavior tended to be either nonfunctional or dysfunctional. They did not associate it with stress reduction, therapeutic touch, and viewed group camaraderie as a means of prevention. Implications are discussed.     

Chaos theory, informational needs, and natural disasters

This study applies chaos theory to a system-wide analysis of crisis communication in a natural disaster. Specifically, we analyze crisis communication during the 1997 Red River Valley flood in Minnesota and North Dakota. This flood, among the worst in modern American history, consumed entire metropolitan areas, displacing thousands of people. The conditions and decisions leading to the disaster, and the subsequent reactions are retraced. Communication related to river crest predictions (fractals), the shock at the magnitude of the crisis (cosmology episode), novel forms of reorganizing (self-organization), and agencies that aided in establishing a renewed order (strange attractors) are evaluated. Ultimately, we argue that preexisting sensemaking structures favoring rationalized, traditional views of a complex system led officials to make inappropriately unequivocal predictions and ultimately diminished the effectiveness of the region's crisis communication and planning.