Emotion and the Law: A Framework for Inquiry

This paper draws on research in social and cognitive psychology to show how theories of judgment and decision making that incorporate decision makers' affective responses apply to legal contexts. It takes 2 widely used models of decision making, the rational actor and lens models, and illustrates their utility for understanding legal judgments by using them to interpret research findings on juror decision making, people's obedience to the law (e.g., paying taxes), and eyewitness memory. The paper concludes with a discussion of the advantages of modifying existing approaches to information processing to include the influence of affect on how legal actors reach judgments about law and legal process.     

On Gratitude

In this review, I use Emmons and McCullough's excellent volume on gratitude as a platform for discussing several issues in emotion, cultural, and moral psychology. First I summarize this exceptionally rich edited book, which provides accessible reviews of the philosophy, theology, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and psychology of gratitude. I next take up four questions inspired by the book. First, I consider whether gratitude is an emotion, and how to operationally define emotions. Second, I discuss the cognitive components of gratitude, including the appraisal structure of gratitude and whether gratitude can occur without an attribution. Third, I take up the question of whether gratitude is indeed a positive emotion, and propose some complications in the nature of positive emotions. Last, I consider potential sources of individual, cultural, and religious differences in gratitude, such as whether gratitude is mostly about internal feelings or the fulfillment of social obligations.

八音古乐的发展脉络及艺术研究

长期流传在黔西南州布依族地区的八音古乐 ,是布依族特有的中华民族文化艺术瑰宝。由它独特的艺术个性与民族特征韵味 ,显示了顽强的生命力。探索八音古乐的发展脉络及艺术研究 ,具有时代意义与深远意义     

Anger, Happiness, and Sadness: Associations with Depressive Symptoms in Late Adolescence

This study used self-report and observational methods to examine associations between depressive symptoms and patterns of emotional experience and expression during late adolescence. Fiftyone male and 49 female first and second year college students completed questionnaires on emotion experience and were videotaped while completing a frustrating task with a friend. Emotion expressions were coded from videotapes. Findings revealed associations between depressive symptoms and reporting high anger experience in the past month but displaying low anger with a friend, reporting low happiness but showing high happiness in the task, and reporting high sadness experience. Gender differences were found in depressive symptoms and in observed and reported happiness. Findings highlight the importance of anger and happiness, in addition to sadness, for depression.Received a PhD in child clinical psychology with a minor in developmental psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on the role of emotion regulation in the development of psychopathology, particularly the development of depression in adolescence.     

后现代主义与当代设计文化观念

设计文化是人们提高自身生活品质、改善生存环境的重要手段。对当代艺术设计的文化观念、审美倾向的精神状态影响最大的,应首推后现代主义设计观念的革命性主张及其设计语言的多元化逻辑。它更强调生存状态的自我保留和风格特点的个性化,力主人文情感的主体性,注重文化的共生观念,强调形态的重构与创新,对当代中国艺术设计的文化观念、审美倾向具有广泛社会影响和深刻的历史作用。     

从“模块教学”到“口径教学”——谈高职类艺术设计教育的战略调整

高职艺术设计教育实施“模块教育”与“口径教学” ,实质上是以教学理念的创新为基础来推动教学手段的改革 ,也就是突出艺术设计教育的时效性 ,并获得其在空间上的可持续发展。实施这一战略调整的现实背景是市场对人才要求的多样化、综合化 ,所要达到的目的是使艺术人才的最终价值体现在产品艺术价值、商品价值的创造上。     

‘States have emotions too’: an affect-centred approach to South African foreign relations

Building on established scholarship in international relations theory, notably Alexander Wendt's assertion that ‘states are people too’, this paper explores South African foreign policy decisions that are routinely dismissed as being ‘schizophrenic’, and makes two claims: first, that existing scholarship fails to adequately address causal factors of South African foreign policy and, second, that we need to turn to emotions and affect to do so. As such, the theoretical framework adopted for the purposes of the paper treats ‘state-level’ affect as a central explanatory factor, in contrast to established scholarship on emotion theorisation, which treats states as ontologically subordinate to their constituent members and thus subject to the private affects and cognitions of the individuals that make decisions on behalf of the state. Existing literature on collective emotion seems to support the possibility of state emotion. This notion of transsubjective emotionality facilitates the argument that states have emotions too, and that these emotions condition not only identities but also actions in international relations.     

室外艺术作品合理使用制度的反思

我国对于室外艺术作品所作的合理使用规定不仅过于简单,而且没有充分考虑到该种作品的特性,导致司法实务的判决出现极大争议。笔者试图通过各国的实践立法分析,结合该种作品特有的公共性、依附性,区别不同情形建立更为详细的室外艺术作品合理使用的标准,包括创作型使用、单一复制和环境结合型复制的使用。     

政府官员法律情感倾向调查与分析

公民是否具有良好的法律意识乃至法律信仰,历来是法治的重要实现条件。而党政领导干部如何看待和认识法律,对于法律所怀有的情感和心理倾向,在很大程度上决定和影响国民乃至整个国家的法律态度。本文在大量问卷调查和统计的基础上,客观描述了我国领导干部的法律情感现状,分析了领导干部法律心理的特点,对提高培养领导干部宪法意识的途径也进行了有益的探索。     

Empirical evidence for AMBER alert as crime control theater: a comparison of student and community samples

While the AMBER Alert system is intended to facilitate the rescue of abducted children, it has practical and psychological limitations. Participants indicated their emotions and perceptions about Alerts before and after reading a vignette that manipulated details about a child abduction. Results indicate that the Alert system fits some criteria of Crime Control Theater (CCT). CCT polices are emotion-based legal actions that appear to address crime but fail to do so and have unintended consequences. Participants experienced panic about child abduction and believed the system is an effective tool which should be used no matter the unintended consequences. Emotions and panic positively related to perceptions of the system. Still, perceptions were not particularly positive, indicating that some participants recognize the system's limitations. Female and community participants generally had more positive perceptions than males and students, especially when experiencing high emotions or panic. Reading about an abduction reduced emotions overall and led to more positive perceptions (but only in the ‘AMBER Alert success’ condition). Reading about an ‘Alert failure’ did not affect perceptions. Results highlight the role of emotion in shaping perceptions of the system. As with other CCT policies, lawmakers should rely less on community sentiment and more on science when adopting legislation.