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2025 Vol. 31, No. 3
Published: 2025-06-30
 
195 Decoding the Solitude: Solitude and Reliance on Feelings versus Reasons in Decision Making
HOU Jia-wen, LIU Feng-jun, XU Yi-fan
Across four studies, we explore the impact of solitude on consumers’ reliance on feelings versus reasons in decision making, along with the underlying mechanism and boundary conditions. The results indicate that solitude individuals (vs. non-solitude) would prefer feeling-based strategy in decision-making, resulting in a higher intention of choosing the affectively superior option over the cognitively superior option (Study 1). Self-focus plays the underlying mechanism in the solitude effect (Study 2). Moreover, we also examine two boundary conditions: motivation (Study 3) and temporal orientation (Study 4), which indicates that involuntary motivation and future orientation can mitigate the solitude effect on affective processing. These findings provide insights into consumers’ judgments of product attributes and selection of decision-making strategies according to their situations. 
2025 Vol. 31 (3): 195-210 [Abstract] ( 319 ) PDF (385 KB)  ( 491 )
211 Emotional Design in Autonomous Driving
CHEN Xiao-jiao，FANG Ke，WANG Bo-fan，JI Xiang，LIU Yan-fang，GAO Qi
The rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology has brought forth new challenges in managing the human-vehicle relationship under the context of autonomous driving functionality. Emotional design emerges as a crucial tool to enhance this relationship and improve the driving experience. This paper provides a review of the theoretical evolution of emotional design and systematically examines the current research status of emotional design in autonomous driving from the perspectives of application development and evaluation methods. We summarize key emotional design principles for addressing human-vehicle interaction challenges, including aesthetics, personalization, anthropomorphism, interaction etiquette, and emotion regulation. Lastly, future directions for the emotional design of autonomous driving vehicles are discussed.
2025 Vol. 31 (3): 211-222 [Abstract] ( 263 ) PDF (839 KB)  ( 817 )
223 Anthropomorphic Design Empowers Service Robot User Experience: Optimization Effects and Risks
CHEN Rongxin，XU Tingrui，ZHENG Yuxin，YU Wenjun
Humanoid service robots are reshaping the service environment and consumer interactive experience, affecting consumers' evaluation of the service robot experience. This paper reviews the impact of anthropomorphic design of service robots on user experience, and summarizes the optimization  effects and potential risks of anthropomorphic design of service robots on user experience from three aspects: initial perception, core services and peripheral services. On this basis, four guiding principles are refined for the anthropomorphic design of future service robots, including moderation principle, scene adaptability principle , socialization  and personalization principle, so as to deal with the risks and challenges faced in the anthropomorphic design of service robots.
2025 Vol. 31 (3): 223-234 [Abstract] ( 262 ) PDF (933 KB)  ( 146 )
235 Relationship between Negative Emotional Granularity and Adolescents’ Negative Emotions : Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation
LI Yu-yang，WANG Nian-xin，ZHANG Yue，QIU Yu-hong，YIN Jun，LIU Fang
This study combined questionnaire assessments with standardized emotional granularity and emotion regulation paradigms to explore the relationships among negative emotional granularity, emotion regulation, and negative affect in adolescents. The results indicated that: (1) negative emotional granularity in adolescents was significantly negatively correlated with negative affect (depression, anxiety, and stress); and (2) emotion regulation abilities (including the numbers and effectiveness of regulation strategies) mediated the relationship between negative emotional granularity and negative affect. These findings enrich the existing research on adolescent emotions and provide empirical support for subsequent effective mental health interventions.
2025 Vol. 31 (3): 235-243 [Abstract] ( 502 ) PDF (1063 KB)  ( 563 )
244 The Relationship and Mechanism between Collective Narcissism and Conspiracy Beliefs
TIAN Cai-yu, MAO Jia-yan, YANG Shen-long, GUO Yong-yu
The core of collective narcissism lies in the dissatisfaction with the insufficient external recognition of the group's excellence. Thus, believing that the out-group plots against the in-group out of jealousy can help collective narcissists reinforce the belief that the in-group is extraordinary. However, collective narcissists do not really identify with the in-group, but rather use the group to compensate for the lack of personal needs. They may also believe in and participate in conspiracies involving the in-group. In conclusion, there are complex connections between collective narcissism and different conspiracy theories, but based on different psychological motivations, none of them can really compensate for the psychology. Instead, they serve to create threatening situations that catalyze the tearing of communities apart.
2025 Vol. 31 (3): 244-257 [Abstract] ( 234 ) PDF (634 KB)  ( 301 )
258 Representation of Task-Irrelevant Information in Social Statistical Learning
PAN Tingting，WANG Jun
The study aimed to investigate whether actors can go beyond individual-level statistical learning in social statistical learning and encode irrelevant information in their own tasks. By manipulating the attention patterns of two co-actors to their sequences, and distinguishing relevant and irrelevant stimuli, the study found that co-actors could process irrelevant stimuli in their own tasks and also represent task-irrelevant information in their co-actors’ tasks. The findings suggest that social context could widen the scope of attention and promote the representation of task-irrelevant information in sequence learning.
2025 Vol. 31 (3): 258-266 [Abstract] ( 138 ) PDF (1049 KB)  ( 87 )
267 Text Reading Strategy and Formation Mechanisms in Deaf and Hard-of-hearing People
WU Yan,WANG Yang,GUAN Bu-xuan
In text reading, individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing often prioritize high-frequency content words, frequently overlooking function words. This approach is termed the "Key Word Strategy"(KWS). The utilization of KWS may correlate with variances in metalinguistic awareness among individuals with hearing impairments. Specifically, this strategy is characterized by syntactic awareness deficits stemming from a limited grasp of function words and an enhanced orthographic awareness attributable to visual compensatory strengths. However, this conclusion is primarily based on correlational studies examining reading outcomes, lacking definitive causal evidence. Future studies should investigate online sentence reading processes and delve into the interplay between syntax and orthography. Exploring how enhancements in syntactic and orthographic skills, through targeted interventions and training, influence the reading processes of individuals with hearing impairments is also crucial.
2025 Vol. 31 (3): 267-277 [Abstract] ( 122 ) PDF (624 KB)  ( 247 )
278 Modeling Psychological Experimental Data Based on Linear Mixed Effects Models
GUO Xiao-jun,JIAO Yu-yue
In psychological experimental research, it is important not only to pay attention to the rigor of the research design but also to ensure that the statistical methods align with the research design. The existing linear mixed effects model (LMEM) is limited to correct reaction times, but incorrect reaction times also reflect important operational information of the subjects on the stimuli. Based on this, this study draws on the approach of survival analysis to censored data, proposing a LMEM of joint incorrect reaction time (JILMEM). In the example data, the JILMEM shows a clear advantage in fitting compared to the LMEM. In simulation study, JILMEM demonstrates a notable superiority over LMEM and F1/F2 test methods in accurately discerning the characteristics of various simulated scenarios and treatment effects in psychological experiments. Therefore, JILMEM can more effectively identify the characteristics of the experimental design, thereby enhancing the repeatability of the research.
2025 Vol. 31 (3): 278-288 [Abstract] ( 245 ) PDF (1277 KB)  ( 551 )
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