Ying Liu

This study focuses on examining the thematic landscape of the history of scholarly publication in business ethics. We analyze the titles, abstracts, full texts, and citation information of all research papers published in the field’s leading journal, the Journal of Business Ethics, from its inaugural issue in February 1982 until December 2016—a dataset that comprises 6308 articles and 42 million words. Our key method is a computational algorithm known as probabilistic topic modeling, which we use to examine objectively the field’s latent thematic landscape based on the vast volume of scholarly texts. This “big-data” approach allows us not only to provide time-specific snapshots of various research topics, but also to track the dynamic evolution of each topic over time. We further examine the pattern of individual papers’ topic diversity and the influence of individual papers’ topic diversity on their impact over time. We conclude this study with our recommendation for future studies in business ethics research.

Tempo is an important musical element that affects human’s emotional processes during music listening. However, it remains unclear how tempo and musical training affect individuals’ emotional experience. To explore the neural underpinnings of the effects of tempo on music-evoked emotion, music with fast tempo, medium tempo, and slow tempo were collected to compare differences in the emotional responses and functional magnetic resonance imaging(fMRI) neural activity between musicians and non-musicians. Behaviorally, musicians perceived higher valence in fast music than non-musicians did. The main effects of group and tempo were significant, and a significant interaction between group and tempo was found. In the arousal dimension, the scores presented as Mmedium > Mfast and Mmedium > Mslow; in the valence dimension, the scores presented as Mfast > Mslow > Mmedium. Functional analyses revealed that the neural activation of musicians was stronger than non-musicians’ in the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL). A comparison of tempi showed that activation by fast music was stronger than slow music in bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG), which provided the neural evidence for the highest valence in fast music. Activation by medium music was stronger than slow music in the right Heschl’s gyrus(HG), right middle temporal gyrus(MTG), right posterior cingulate gyrus(PCC), right precuneus, right IPL and left STG, which provided neural evidence of the medium music having the highest arousal and lowest valence. Importantly, the current study confirmed and explained the connection between music tempo and emotional experiences and their interaction with individuals’ musical training.

In the 1990s, have long been into the "limbo" of literary criticism and ethics scholars quietly occupied the United States. In the post-modern context, the literary criticism of the ethical shift is not a simple return to tradition, but was given a new meaning and carry a new mission. Engaged in literary criticism of the construction of ethical theorists because of their different starting points and strategies basically two camps: the new humanism and deconstruction were sent, who together constitute a post-modern context of the ethical criticism of American literature the landscape. Ethic criticism dominated American literary criticism once again in 1990's, though for a long time it was marginized. However, the ethics turn of literary criticism in the post modern context is not simply a returning to tradition, instead, it was endowed with new connotation therefore equipped with new missions. Varied in starting points and strategies, critics devoted to ethic criticism could roughly be divided into two parts: that of ness humanism and of deconstruction. The work together and form a postmodern brilliant ethic landscape in American criticism