Can Pop Culture Allay Resentment? Japan’s Influence in China Today

The Influence of Pop-Culture on Misattribution of Memory

Social media platforms provide a source for transmitting information that can become widely accepted. However, in this process of transmission, information becomes susceptible to distortion. In this study, we assessed people’s semantic (i.e., prior expectations) and recognition memory for pop culture content, as a function of confidence and perceived information source. In Experiment 1, we inve...

English in China today

Stroke Rehabilitation in China Today

Background: Rehabilitation is cornerstone for the recovery of stroke patients. This lecture focuses on the current status of stroke rehabilitation in China. Methods: Selective review of papers published by Chinese authors. Results: A new system which is called “standardized tertiary rehabilitation” was established in China and has better effect on the recovery of motor function, cognitive funct...

PopTherapy: Coping with Stress through Pop-Culture

Stress is considered to be a modern day “global epidemic"; so given the widespread nature of this problem, it would be beneficial if solutions that help people to learn how to cope better with stress were scalable beyond what individual or group therapies can provide today. Therefore, in this work, we study the potential of smart-phones as a pervasive medium to provide "crowd therapy". The work...

Medicine and public health in China today.