Which emoji are markers of sarcasm among Chinese teenagers using the WeChat app?

This study explored emoji-based sarcastic statements made by Chinese teenagers using the WeChat app. Two experiments ( = 597) were conducted to investigate both language production and comprehension. In Experiment 1 ( = 236), a free-response task was used to determine which emoji Chinese teenagers would use to signal their sarcastic intentions.

Search for meaning alleviated individual depressive symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of optimism.

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent quarantine measures have disrupted people's normal pace of life and created excessive pressure. The current study examined the mitigating effect of search for meaning in life on individual depressive symptoms and the mediating role of optimism during COVID-19 lockdown period. A total of 462 participants (M = 37.

Recommending surgical or non-surgical treatments in medical consultations: The case in Chinese contexts.

Objectives: This study examines the design and delivery of surgical and non-surgical treatment recommendations in China.

Methods: We examined 936-minute recordings of medical consultations using conversation analysis. Data were collected from two tertiary hospitals in China.

Turing patterns in a networked vegetation model.

A vegetation model composed of water and plants was proposed by introducing a weighted graph Laplacian operator into the reaction-diffusion dynamics. We showed the global existence and uniqueness of the solution via monotone iterative sequence. The parameter space of Turing patterns for plant behavior is obtained based on the analysis of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian of weighted graph, while the amplitude equation determining the stability of Turing patterns is obtained by weakly nonlinear analysis.

Pd-Based Multi-Site Catalysts for Selective CO-to-Methanol Conversion.

Developing a multi-site Pd-based electrocatalyst for CO-to-C1 conversion with high performance and selectivity in the hydrogenation pathway for the CO electroreduction reaction is both desirable and challenging. Here, we develop triple-site metallene (PdBiIn), which can achieve an unprecedented Faraday efficiency of 72.6 ± 1% for methanol production.

Language switching is modulated by emotion priming: evidence from behavioral and event-related potentials study.

Introduction: Bilinguals often switch between different languages to effectively communicate their ideas. The variation in the increase in reaction times and error rates is termed as the language switch cost. Generally, bilingual language-switching costs demonstrate asymmetry, with a greater cost associated with transitioning from the weaker L2 to the dominant L1 than in the reverse scenario.

Cultivation strategies of English thinking ability in the environment of Internet of Things.

The study aims to broaden the horizons of English learners and solve the problem of insufficient cultivation of English thinking. With the widespread use of the Internet of Things (IoT) and from the perspective of deep learning, the Local Similar Convolutional Neural Network (LSNN) recommendation model is designed by adding adjustment layers to the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The LSNN model alleviates the sparsity of data.

The Impact of Executive Functions and Musicality on Speech Auditory-Motor Synchronization in Adults Who Stutter.

Purpose: Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental disorder that disrupts the timing and rhythmic flow of speech production. There is growing evidence indicating that abnormal interactions between the auditory and motor cortices contribute to the development of stuttering. The present study investigated speech auditory-motor synchronization in stuttering adults and the influential factors behind it as compared to individuals without stuttering.

The effect of Internet use on body weight in Chinese adolescents: Evidence from a nationally longitudinal survey.

The prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents has been increasing steadily. This study aims to investigates the causal effect and underlying mechanisms between Internet use and body weight among Chinese adolescents. Using data from China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) spanning from 2004 to 2015, the analytical sample includes 3054 participants (aged 11-19, 48% females).

Does lexical category matter in effects of emotionality on L2 word processing in late proficient Chinese-English bilinguals? An ERP study.

Although the effects of emotionality on word processing might be modulated by lexical category, a body of extant literature has tended to obviate the need of considering this factor. In this study, we attempted to address how lexical category modulates the effects of emotionality on L2 word processing. To this end, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from a group of late proficient Chinese-English bilinguals while they performed a lexical decision task with a set of tightly matched negative, positive, and neutral words across three lexical categories (nouns, verbs, adjectives).

Choice of communication mode at home and speechreading performance of adolescents with hearing impairment in China.

The ability to speechread is often critical for persons with hearing impairment (HI), who may depend on speechreading to access the spoken language and interact with the hearing world. It is not clear, however, whether the primary mode of communication at home will influence speechreading abilities of young adults with HI even when they are enrolled in the same school with the same communication or instructional methods. Thirty-two hearing-impaired adolescents whose parents chose spoken language as the primary mode of communication of the family (the SPOKEN group) and thirty-two hearing-impaired adolescents with sign language as the primary mode of communication of the family (the SIGN group) were administered a Chinese speechreading battery consisting of tests at monosyllabic word, disyllabic word and sentence levels.

Uncertainty Management in Chinese Mainstream Media's Health Communication on Weibo After COVID-19 Policy Shifts: A Discursive Exploration.

Given the influence of emotional management on social media in public health communication, examining the discursive strategies employed in health-crisis communication is crucial. Using the Weibo posts of the as a data source, this study analyzes the discursive strategies and resources employed by the mainstream media to address uncertainties pertaining to a 2022 shift in COVID-19 policy. The findings reveal that the mainstream media use both informational and emotional strategies, expressing various epistemic stances and promoting positivity while countering negativity.

The chain-mediating effects of negative physical sensation and experiential avoidance on exercise anxiety in college students.

Purpose: The present study aimed to explore the potential mediating role of negative physical sensation and experiential avoidance in the association between endurance exercise and exercise anxiety among university students.

Method: In this study, a questionnaire method was employed to conduct the Adolescent Athlete Non-Intellectual Factors Survey Scale on 1,200 college students. From this sample, 287 individuals with exercise anxiety were identified through an endurance exercise test and the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II) subsequently administered as well as The Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE).

Incorporating peer feedback in academic writing: a systematic review of benefits and challenges.

Academic writing is paramount to students' academic success in higher education. Given the widely acknowledged benefits of peer feedback in diverse learning contexts, such as fostering a positive psychological mindset, there has been a growing interest in applying this approach to facilitate the development of academic writing. This study is launched to examine the primary features and findings of the studies that have investigated the benefits and challenges of the utilization of peer feedback in academic writing development.

Multi-physiological signal fusion for objective emotion recognition in educational human-computer interaction.

Introduction: An increasing prevalence of psychological stress and emotional issues among higher education teachers necessitates innovative approaches to promote their wellbeing. Emotion recognition technology, integrated into educational human-computer interaction (HCI) systems, offers a promising solution. This study aimed to develop a robust emotion recognition system to enhance teacher-student interactions within educational HCI settings.

Prime effects in metaphor comprehension: comparing congruent and opposite schematic primes.

This study investigates the role of priming in the process of metaphor comprehension focusing on both literal and gesture-based primes under congruent and opposite conditions. We conducted a two-stage experiment to explore how different priming conditions influence the cognitive processing of metaphors. In stage 1, participants made sensibility judgments on a set of metaphors in congruent literal primes (Group 1), opposite literal primes (Group 2), and no-prime conditions, with Group 3 serving as a baseline.

Relationship between serum carotenoids and telomere length in overweight or obese individuals.

Background: Previous researches have demonstrated an association between carotenoids and elongated telomeres. Nonetheless, there is scant scientific evidence examining this relationship in individuals who are overweight or obese, a demographic more predisposed to accelerated aging. This study aims to elucidate the correlation between serum carotenoid concentrations and telomere length within this population group.

EAD: effortless anomalies detection, a deep learning based approach for detecting outliers in English textual data.

Anomalies are the existential abnormalities in data, the identification of which is known as anomaly detection. The absence of timely detection of anomalies may affect the key processes of decision-making, fraud detection, and automated classification. Most of the existing models of anomaly detection utilize the traditional way of tokenizing and are computationally costlier, mainly if the outliers are to be extracted from a large script.

How Chinese Doctors Do Things With Discursive Strategies in Palliative Care Family Meetings: A Genre Theory Analysis.

Palliative care family meetings (PCFMs) can be conceivably endorsed as helpful means for bettering end of life (EOL) communication with terminally ill patients and their families. Relevant scholarship in China remains emerging and youthful, with many avenues left to explore. Few studies have delineated the structure and specified the strategies for conducting PCFMs in the Chinese context.

Spatiotemporal dynamics of abstract concept processing: An MEG study.

Our current understanding of how linguistic concepts are represented and retrieved in the brain is largely based on studies using concrete language, and only few studies have focused on the neural correlates of abstract concepts. The role of the motor system, besides the classical language network, has been intensively discussed in action-related concrete concepts. To advance our understanding of spatiotemporal dynamics underlying abstract concept processing, our study investigated to what extent language and motor regions are engaged in the processing of abstract concepts vs.

Psychometric evaluation of DASS versions among Spanish and Chinese teachers using exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM).

Background: Teachers in demanding work environments are prone to anxiety, depression, and stress. Validated measures across different cultural contexts are required. The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the 21-item Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) and DASS-12 and DASS-8 among Spanish and Chinese primary school teachers.

Understanding EFL learners' willingness to communicate dynamics during a group communicative task: An idiodynamic perspective.

A sizeable amount of research has explored the dynamicity of second language (L2) willingness to communicate (WTC) within specific durations, but little scholarly attention has been paid to investigating L2 WTC in a single communicative task performed in a natural classroom setting with a per-second measuring scheme, the idiodynamic video-playback software. To this end, an idiodynamic method was applied in this study to understand classroom WTC inspired by complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) on a micro-timescale. The present research investigated how four Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) exhibited WTC dynamics during a group communicative task in a natural classroom environment and what factors were attributed to impacting their WTC dynamics during the task.

Developing Strategies to Improve Textbook Design Using Synergy of Native and Learner Corpora.

The research aims to enhance the handling of modal verbs (MVs) in EFL textbooks by leveraging perspectives from corpora that include both native speakers' language data and the language data of individuals who are learning the language. To assess the authenticity of language in textbooks, an analysis between the native corpus and a collection of language data compiled from textbook is conducted. The research delves into the developmental patterns of MV usage among learners through a stratified analysis of student essays (Grades 7, 8, 9).