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Abstract

The December 2016 issue of PsyCh Journal presents six original articles highlighting recent psychological research from China, beginning with a voxel‐based morphometry study using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to explore the neural correlates of multitasking ability. Another MRI study adopted an imaging‐based quantitative approach to examine minor physical anomalies, such as smaller optical angles and medial‐ocular distance, that may serve as risk markers for schizophrenia‐spectrum disorders. This is followed by a validation of the Chinese version of the Anticipatory and Consummatory Interpersonal Pleasure Scale (ACIPS), showing it to be a reliable measure for assessing individual differences in social pleasure, which can therefore serve as a screening tool for assessing social anhedonia. Next is a study of the developmental trajectory of time perspective, administering the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) to a large sample ranging from children to older adults, and suggesting that each time perspective dimension has a unique developmental pattern across the human lifespan. Next, an experimental study manipulated conflicts among frames of reference (FORs) used to represent and update spatial relationships of different objects, finding that participants were more sensitive to incongruencies among intrinsic FORs than egocentric ones, although these differing types of spatial representations competetively rely on a common processing mechanism. Concluding the issue is another experimental study examining the relationship between sense of control, aggressive cues, and adolescent aggression, finding that a lower sense of control led to both an increase in adolescents' aggression and a higher salience for aggressive cues. In addition, the issue includes at the close with the first of a regular series of reports on recent trends in Chinese psychology, presenting synopses of three articles that won the “Best Papers in Acta Psychologica Sinica of the Year” award for 2015. image