Peng Kaiping, male, born in 1962, Ph.D. in psychology, is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Psychology of Tsinghua University, the president of Tsinghua University Academy of Social Sciences and the president of Tsinghua University Global Industry Research Institute. The following is the related content of Peng Kaiping's My Heart Can Be Learned: Surging Fuxi.
Peng Kaiping: The first dean of the Department of Psychology of Tsinghua University after the Department of Restoration, a professor of the Department of Psychology of Tsinghua University, a tenured professor of psychology and East Asian studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a winner of the Teaching Excellence Award. National overseas senior talents introduced by the Central Organization Department, Chairman of Academic Committee of Tsinghua University Academy of Social Sciences, Director of Advanced Research Center of Psychology in Berkeley, Tsinghua University, and Director of Positive Psychology Research Center of Tsinghua University Academy of Social Sciences. He won the most popular course award of Tsinghua University large-scale open online course and the best teaching award of Tsinghua University EMBA for five consecutive years. He is a member of the scientific leading group of the American Psychological Association, the director of social personality psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the leading figures in the research field of international cultural psychology.
Professor Peng has published more than 220 papers in academic journals, won many important academic awards and published many academic monographs. He was once rated as the most cited young and middle-aged social psychologist in the world by the American Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and was selected into Elsevier's "Top Ten Psychologists of China Researchers with the Most Citations in 20 15".
Professor Peng is also the initiator, consultant and director of many non-profit organizations, and as the only invitee in Asia for two years in a row, he gave a report to the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of China at the United Nations "International Happiness Day" commemorative meeting.
From July 2065438 to July 2006, Professor Peng Kaiping published his book "My Heart Can Learn: A Surging Stream of Blessings", which was widely praised after publication and was out of print in just one week. The following is an anthology of his articles:
Does listening to sad concerts make you more active when you are sad?
PLoSon_E, an online science magazine published on 20 14, published an interesting article written by Taruffi and Koelsch (20 14) entitled "Contradictory Effects of Sad Music: An Internet Survey".
The two scholars tried to solve the paradox of sad music to see why so many people still like sad music. They conducted an online survey and asked 772 participants. These people come from different cultures, different ages and different social classes, mainly to understand their experience of sad music.
They summed up 76 reasons and 76 experiences according to the responses of the subjects, and then compiled a survey scale according to these experiences, so that the subjects could answer these 76 questions quietly without any music. It turns out that when listening to sad music, the most common emotion is not melancholy and sadness, but nostalgia.
In other words, people usually think that sad music will definitely inspire sad emotions. But many times I find that sad music inspires people's emotional memories, and the most striking thing is nostalgia. So sad music can arouse people's empathy, sympathy, and social psychology of caring and understanding others.
In the past, many people thought that the main function of sad music was to make people realize that they were not the only sad people in the world. Because music is a tool of social communication, people can share the pain that others feel at the same time. This is also the reason why elton john's Candle in the Wind is popular all over the world, because it was published after the death of Princess Diana, and it can make many Diana fans around the world share the pain instead of suffering alone.
However, this study basically denies the psychological effect of sad music in the past, and also finds that the emotional response caused by sad music is actually very complicated and influenced by sympathy and empathy. In a sense, sad music will also have some positive effects, that is, it can adjust and soothe our negative emotions. These positive emotional reactions may be the reason why sad music is liked by many people, which allows us to have a positive experience of our good emotional memory.
Of course, there are still many unclear places in this study. After all, it's just network research, and many conclusions are just related research results. Without experimental control and manipulation, it is difficult to draw a clear conclusion.
Moreover, in a sense, there may be great individual differences. It is mentioned in the article that for people with unstable emotions, sad music may play a better role in mood regulation and alleviate some negative emotional factors that they often experience. Therefore, people who are basically happy in life are advised to listen to cheerful music more; People who are unlucky and have a rough life seem to listen to some sad music, but in fact, they play a positive regulatory role.
The main reason why I am interested in this research is that I also want to explain that there are still many problems to be explored and studied in positive psychology, and human psychology is actually very subtle and complicated.
As Socrates said, "An unexamined life is not worth living." The psychological point of view that the individual feels that there is no research and demonstration is also unreliable. Because we have many simple and intuitive understandings of psychology, especially positive psychology, there are still many viewpoints that lack systematic and rigorous scientific verification to some extent. Even if we think that the happy effect of happy music and the negative effect of sad music are natural reasons, it is worth re-examining and studying.
"Taking it for granted" is not a scientific attitude, "yes" is the question that needs to be verified, and "why" is the most important goal. (Excerpted from "My heart can look in the mirror-surging blessings")
Extension: the life of the character
Peng Kaiping, associate professor, 1983 graduated from the psychology department of Peking University and stayed there as a teacher. From 65438 to 0997, he received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan, and later taught in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a tenured professor of psychology and East Asian studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served as the director of social and personality psychology at the University of California and a member of the Scientific Leadership Committee of the American Psychological Association. Since May 2008, he has been employed as a professor and the first head of the Department of Psychology of Tsinghua University.
He is currently the president of Tsinghua University Academy of Social Sciences, the head of the Department of Psychology in Tsinghua University, and the co-chairman of Tsinghua University Happiness Science and Technology Laboratory (H+Lab). China, director of International Association of Positive Psychology (IPPA) and International Association of Positive Education (lPEN), executive chairman of China International Conference on Positive Psychology (2009-present). For two consecutive years, he delivered a speech on behalf of China at the United Nations International Day of Happiness.
Up to now, more than 450 papers have been published in academic journals, and books 12 volumes have been published in both Chinese and English, such as Psychological Testing: Principles and Practice, Cultural Psychology (an English textbook), Cross-cultural Communication, My Heart Can Learn-Surging Fuxi, Living a Blooming Life, and Children's Character. He has won many important academic awards, and won the Best Paper Award of American Social Psychology Association in 2004. Best thesis award of American School of Management in 2006; In 2007, he was named the most cited young and middle-aged social psychologist in the world by the American Society of Personality and Social Psychology. 2065438+2005 Second Prize of Excellent Scientific Research Achievements of China Ministry of Education. Since 20 15, he has been selected into Elsevier's List of Psychologists of Highly Cited Scholars in China for seven consecutive years, and won the first prize of "Excellent Works of National College Network Propaganda and Ideological Education" by the Ministry of Education in 20 17. Introduction to Psychology, taught on 20 13 and 20 14, became the most popular course in China's massive open network course (MOCC) and was selected as the national excellent open network course in 20 17. 20 15 was elected as the "Top Ten Mr. China" program of Shandong Satellite TV; In 20 16, he was elected as "Top Ten People in Healthy China" by People's Daily Online. 20 18 won the "Mentor and Mentor Award" in Tsinghua University; Positive psychology, taught on 20 19, won the excellent online course of the Ministry of Education; 202 1 The comprehensive course system of positive psychology and social psychological service won the first prize of Tsinghua University teaching achievement. He won the EMBA Award of Tsinghua University Institute of Economics and Management for the most popular teacher and outstanding contribution award for 8 consecutive years. In 2020, he was awarded the title of advanced individual in fighting epidemic in Tsinghua University.
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