Schizophrenia affects about 23 million people around the world. As one of its core positive symptoms, delusions are characterized by the fact that they cannot be easily corrected in the face of counter-evidence, which has become a difficult point for clinical intervention. Different theoretical schools have put forward systematic explanations of the formation and maintenance of delusions from their own perspectives, but there is a lack of sufficient cross-comparison and integration between these theories. This paper adopts the methods of narrative literature review and cross-theoretical comparison to carry out a systematic analysis from the three theoretical perspectives of the cognitive model, the psychodynamic model and the predictive processing model. The cognitive model emphasizes the role of interpretive bias and attention bias, the psychodynamic model focuses on the function of externalization and defense mechanisms of internal conflict, and the predictive processing model explains delusions from the perspective of an imbalance in the precision weighting of prediction errors. The three theories are different in their levels of interpretation, but they are complementary at the level of the interaction between cognition and experience. The integrated framework proposed in this article suggests that future research should promote the understanding of delusions from a multi-level and multi-method perspective. Clinical intervention should integrate cognitive-behavioral techniques and relational treatment strategies, and optimize individualized intervention plans with the help of computational models.

The main purpose of this study is to explore the factors that contribute to professional athletes winning gold medals at the Olympic Games. Given the global attention paid to the achievements of previous Olympic Games and the national focus on the cultivation of Olympic athletes and their medal situations, it is of significant analytical value to understand the differences between Olympic gold medalists and other medalists. This study will utilize the 120 Years of Olympic Athletes Dataset and obtain the basic data of Olympic athletes from it to construct a prediction model and identify the key factors influencing gold medal awards. The research structure indicates that the optimal physiological condition is usually associated with the optimal age group, and the optimal physiological condition will have a crucial impact on the competitive level of top athletes. Although machine learning models can effectively identify the success factors of top athletes, the absence of some athlete features and potential sample bias make the overall situation limited. Overall, this study demonstrates that predictive models can provide reliable predictive capabilities for sports analysis and help understand measurable athlete characteristics related to medal competition in the Olympics and other different events.

Narrative writing is when students transform their personal experiences, emotions and memories into written form. This study explores how emotional experiences shape the academic motivation of narrative writing, with a particular focus on risk, writing engagement, and narrative depth. This study adopted a self-ethnographic narrative inquiry design to analyze the reflective comments on three narrative poems written by students. The focus of the analysis is on repetitive emotional images and reflections related to anxiety, safety, cultural memory, sense of belonging and students' voices. The research results show that emotional instability is detrimental to students' willingness to disclose their personal experiences. Anxiety may coexist with persistence, but it can reduce the depth of expression. In contrast, cultural memory and identity can enhance motivation by making writing feel more meaningful. This study holds that the motivation for narrative writing should be understood as a relational and emotional process, rather than merely a personal trait or skill. These findings suggest that teachers can express deeper narrative writing by establishing emotional security, providing reaction-oriented feedback, and valuing students' cultural memory and identity.

Social media has become an important tool and key means of seamless interpersonal interaction, allowing users to share their needs, feelings and daily life mainly on social media platforms. As a unique group, international students often use social media to maintain their continuity with various social relationships. This paper reviews and analyses the existing research on the use of social media platforms by international students and explores the impact of social media platforms on students' social support, social networks and psychological needs. The study found that social media is like a "double-edged sword" for international students. Although it benefits connecting with family and friends, adapting to new environments and gaining information quickly, excessive use can aggravate loneliness in real life. The study also provides important insights into solving the complex and contradictory negative effects that international students may face when using social media platforms.

Dragon dance is a precious intangible cultural heritage of China, featuring unique athletic value and cultural connotation, and it serves as an important carrier for traditional culture inheritance and quality-oriented education. In recent years, traditional sports have been gradually integrated into campus physical education, yet the popularization of dragon dance in schools still faces practical bottlenecks, including insufficient professional teachers, single teaching modes, limited venue and equipment resources, and low student participation enthusiasm, which restrict its sustainable development on campus. Based on literature review, field investigation and logical analysis, this paper systematically explores the feasibility, practical value and existing problems of introducing dragon dance into campus education. The research finds that the integration of dragon dance into campus teaching and extracurricular activities can effectively improve students' physical quality, cultivate their teamwork spirit and sense of national cultural identity, and enrich the diversified construction of campus culture. Furthermore, this study puts forward targeted optimization strategies from curriculum design, teacher training, activity mechanism and school support, aiming to provide practical references for the standardized promotion and innovative inheritance of dragon dance in modern campus education system.

Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health challenge, and understanding patterns of antibiotic use is important for improving stewardship strategies. This study examined socioeconomic, mental health, and healthcare access determinants of prescription antibiotic use among U.S. adults using publicly available data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017 March to 2020 pre-pandemic cycle. Adults aged 18 years and older were included. Prescription antibiotic use during the previous 30 days was identified from the NHANES prescription medication file. Independent variables included age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, household income, health insurance coverage, primary source of healthcare, self-rated health, and depressive disorders and symptoms measured by the PHQ-9. Descriptive statistics and bivariate analyses were conducted using Pearson's chi-square tests and independent-samples t-tests. Among 9,693 adults, 355 (3.7%) reported recent prescription antibiotic use. Antibiotic use was significantly associated with sex, race/ethnicity, health insurance, usual source of healthcare, self-rated health, depression category, and PHQ-9 score. Age, education, and household income were not significantly associated with antibiotic use. These exploratory findings suggest that healthcare access and mental health may be important correlates of prescription antibiotic use.

The proliferation of short-form videos and fragmented information is profoundly reshaping contemporary reading habits. Drawing on an integrative literature review, this study analyzes the multifaceted impact of digital media on the progressive decline of deep reading abilities among higher education students. It focuses on how high-frequency environmental stimuli modify, disrupt, and ultimately damage traditional attention patterns and the underlying reading motivations, drawing on foundational research across pedagogy, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Findings reveal that digital environments explicitly trigger the "screen inferiority effect" and "attention residue," leading to severe attention fragmentation and elevated cognitive costs during task switching. Furthermore, the highly sophisticated variable-reward mechanisms engineered by modern digital platforms undermine an individual's intrinsic motivation to read, transitioning the primary purpose of reading from a profound quest for intellectual knowledge to a superficial pursuit of instant entertainment. Consequently, traditional linear and analytical thinking processes are superseded by superficial cognitive shortcuts. Educational interventions must prioritize advanced digital literacy, create distraction-free, deep-reading environments, and guide students to use metacognitive awareness to moderate their technology consumption.

Centring on the mechanism of 'Gan Tong' within Wang Yangming's doctrine of 'Realising the Liangzhi', this study aims to address the ethical dilemma of contemporary society, characterised by highly developed rationality yet marked by interpersonal alienation and emotional indifference. The article points out that Wang Yangming, through the proposition 'the mind is the Principle', shifted the foundation of 'Gan Tong' entirely from the external Heavenly Principle to the internal mind-substance, thereby establishing the agency of the moral subject and the ontological status of emotion. The study delves deeply into the essence of 'Liangzhi' as an ontological capacity for 'Gan Tong'; that is, Liangzhi is not merely the 'heart that distinguishes right from wrong', but rather a vital ontological entity capable of directly perceiving external objects and manifesting as 'sincere and compassionate' emotions. The article further elaborates on the practical path to realising 'Gan Tong', including 'contemplation in stillness' to clarify the mind-substance, and 'Sincerity of intention and investigation of things' to hone one's practice through engagement with the world, ultimately attaining the authentic experience of 'the oneness of all things'. The conclusion argues that Wang Yangming constructed a system of Gan Tong in an ontological sense through the concept of 'the free flow of the One Qi', transforming Gan Tong from a realm of self-cultivation into an essential function of Liangzhi.

During the era of the Internet, online friends became the trend. Different research in the past focused on the effects and the external reasons of online friends in both external ways and internal ways. In this research, researcher assumed that loneliness is positively related to online friend preference, and emotional stability is the moderator of the relationship. Participants finished a questionnaire with 9-point Likert scales, and Jamovi was used to conduct data analysis and moderation analysis. The result verified these hypotheses: there is a positive relationship between loneliness and online friend preference. Also, the moderation effect of emotional stability is significant in low emotional stability, but it is not significant in high emotional stability. The limitations includes limited sample size, gender difference, and limitation of moderators. Future studies can focus on the causual relationship between loneliness and online friend preference and the difference of the relationship between different cultural background.

Why do observers misread other people's emotions in naturalistic narratives? One possibility is that observers fail to track the target's affective signal; another is that their own emotional response becomes coupled to their inference. This paper tested these accounts using a secondary behavioral analysis of the Stanford Emotional Narratives fMRI Dataset/SENDv1, combining target self-ratings, observer inference ratings, observer own-feeling ratings, and live target-observer tracking metrics. Observer inference was associated with both target actual emotion and observer own feeling, indicating that judgments contained target-related information while also reflecting self-emotion coupling. Self-other affective mismatch predicted empathic error beyond live tracking performance. Signed-error analyses further showed that inference errors were directionally aligned with observers' own emotional deviations from the target, and within-video permutation tests indicated that these associations were not reducible to distance-geometry overlap alone. These findings support a conservative dual-component account of empathic inaccuracy in naturalistic emotional narratives: empathic errors reflect both difficulty tracking the target's affective signal and directionally self-consistent use of the observer's own emotional response.