Interpersonal attraction and personality: What is attractive--self similarity, ideal similarity, complementarity or attachment security?

Little is known about whether personality characteristics influence initial attraction. Because adult attachment differences influence a broad range of relationship processes, the authors examined their role in 3 experimental attraction studies. The authors tested four major attraction hypotheses--self similarity, ideal-self similarity, complementarity, and attachment security--and examined both actual and perceptual factors. Replicated analyses across samples, designs, and manipulations showed that actual security and self similarity predicted attraction. With regard to perceptual factors, ideal similarity, self similarity, and security all were significant predictors. Whereas perceptual ideal and self similarity had incremental predictive power, perceptual security's effects were subsumed by perceptual ideal similarity. Perceptual self similarity fully mediated actual attachment similarity effects, whereas ideal similarity was only a partial mediator. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The Social Risk Hypothesis of Depressed Mood: Evolutionary, Psychosocial, and Neurobiological Perspectives.

The authors hypothesize that depressed states evolved to minimize risk in social interactions in which individuals perceive that the ratio of their social value to others, and their social burden on others, is at a critically low level. When this ratio reaches a point where social value and social burden are approaching equivalence, the individual is in danger of exclusion from social contexts that, over the course of evolution, have been critical to fitness. Many features of depressed states can be understood in relation to mechanisms that reduce social risk in such circumstances, including (a) hyper-sensitivity to signals of social threat from others, (b) sending signals to others that reduce social risks, and (c) inhibiting risk-seeking (e.g., confident, acquisitive) behaviors. These features are discussed in terms of psychosocial and neurobiological research on depressive phenomena. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The confounded nature of angry men and happy women.

Findings of 7 studies suggested that decisions about the sex of a face and the emotional expressions of anger or happiness are not independent: Participants were faster and more accurate at detecting angry expressions on male faces and at detecting happy expressions on female faces. These findings were robust across different stimulus sets and judgment tasks and indicated bottom-up perceptual processes rather than just top-down conceptually driven ones. Results from additional studies in which neutrally expressive faces were used suggested that the connections between masculine features and angry expressions and between feminine features and happy expressions might be a property of the sexual dimorphism of the face itself and not merely a result of gender stereotypes biasing the perception. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

利用空间多普勒调谐技术冷却原子及其速度单一化

本文理论计算了用圆锥管内多次全反射激光而产生的多普勒频移来冷却原子束的机制。给出了最佳冷却原子束的圆锥管的夹角、长度、反射次数及激光入、出射角等参数。理论计算了原子束经过圆锥管冷却的速度分布情况。数值计算结果表明：采用两个长１３０ｃｍ的锥形管来冷却原子束，选用合适的失谐量可使极大部分速度小于１２００ｍ／ｓ的原子冷却到８ｌｍ／ｓ，并且可得到单一速度的高亮度的原子束。     

基于协方差矩阵变换的相干源个数估计

正确地估计信号源个数是高分辨阵列信号处理的一个重要组成部分,本文提出了一种相干源个数估计的方法。这种方法是先采用空间平滑技术对信号源去相关,然后对阵列协方差进行酉变换,最后用基于协方差矩阵变换的信息论准则和盖氏半径(Gerschgorin Radii)两种方法估计信号源个数。计算机仿真结果证实了方法的可行性。     

Analyses and Solutions of Specific Cases in Spatial Angles Calculation

1 Introduction “Spatial Angles Calculations” means that all the calculations of given and unknown parameters are related to calculating angles in 3D space. The functions and relevant parameters in 3D space are much more complicated than that in 2D space, i.e. on a plane. Professor Sun, based on his research conducting for more than a decade, presented a series of new algorithms to calculate angles in space which are valuable in both theory and applications[1]. The authors found that, in g…     

The Perception of a Colored Translucent Sheet on a Background

Metelli's theory of the perception of translucency models the effective reflectance of a translucent sheet on a background as a partitive mixture of the color of the sheet and the color of the background. In the achromatic case, the usable (that is, scale-invariant) rules governing the apparent reflectances are the same as those that would emerge from the Kubelka-Munk theory. For chromatic translucency, the relationships are more complex, but a set of rules still emerge from the partitive-mixture theory that are invariant to tradeoffs between illuminant and reflectances. This column sets forth the rules in the hopes that they will have graphical applications, both on computer VDUs and in hardcopy.     

空间连杆机构构件组合法及其应用

本文提出了空间连杆机构的构件组合法,并讨论了此方法在刚体导向中的应用。本文还给出了实现刚体导向用的数学模型及计算实例。     

Effects of Fimbria-Fornix, Hippocampus, and Amygdala Lesions on Discrimination Between Proximal Locations.

The conditioned cue preference (CCP) task was used to study the information required to discriminate between spatial locations defined by adjacent arms of an 8-arm radial maze. Normal rats learned the discrimination after 3 unreinforced preexposure (PE) sessions and 4 food paired-unpaired training trials. Fimbria-fornix lesions made before, but not after, PE, and hippocampus lesions made at either time, blocked the discrimination, suggesting that the 2 structures processed different information. Lateral amygdala lesions made before PE facilitated the discrimination. This amygdala-mediated interference with the discrimination was the result of a conditioned approach response that did not discriminate between the 2 arm locations. A hippocampus/fimbria-fornix system and an amygdala system process different information about the same learning situation simultaneously and in parallel. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)