Whether people can offer one another a mutual and complete emotional response in intimate relationships is a basic question for understanding the structural limits of interpersonal emotional interaction. This article argues that such responses are rarely achieved in practice. Moreover, this gap reflects a structural limitation rather than a moral failure. Through a survey of 50 adults and 10 semi-structured interviews, this study develops, on that basis, the core concept of the "0.5 Dilemma". Participants supplied approximately half of the scale's maximal emotional responses in attentiveness, self-disclosure, commitment stability, psychological transparency, emotional resonance, emotional maintenance, and reciprocal giving. The average normalised sufficiency score was .48, with a standard deviation (SD) of .06, significantly below the .50 midpoint, t(49) = −2.15, p = .037. The emotional gap was largest on the attention dimension, while commitment stability showed the highest normalised sufficiency. Participants aged 40 and over reported less sufficiency than younger individuals. The interviews revealed distraction caused by competing mental load, silence to protect the other, and waning empathy. The paper then argues that the claim that emotionally expressive androids are "deceptive" is based on an unrealistically full picture of human interaction and proposes three ethical limits for silicon-based completion: transparency, social facilitation, and autonomy.

With the development of the digital economy, more and more data will be created and used, so protecting sensitive personal information is now a serious problem. But the scope of sensitive personal information listed in Article 28 of China's Personal Information Protection Law issued in 2021 still remains ambiguous in practice and thus problems have arisen in enforcement and compliance. This study will analyze the current legal framework and address this ambiguity and the formalism of mandatory consent through comparative study of EU's General Data Protection Regulation and America's California Privacy Rights Act, as well as a case study. This study argues that China should adopt purposive interpretation to judge sensitivity based on risks of damage regardless of the category of data, refine the current opt-in consent structure to guarantee users' genuine voluntariness and strengthen corporate accountability by setting a personal information protection impact assessment, thus bridging the gap between legislation itself and real-world data processing situations.

Women's careers in science and technology are under pressure around the world. Existing studies have not examined the cases of individual women and how they cope. Although there are some highly accomplished female scholars in the same field, the psychological reasons for their ability to cope with stress and avoid internalizing gender stereotypes at a micro-level have not been explored. Our participant is a senior female researcher in a traditional engineering field and she was selected as the high-resilience sample for this study. We conducted semi-structured life-history interviews and career retrospectives to map the coping strategies in cognition, emotion and behavior of the participant. Based on our findings, our participant was able to reduce occupational stress and stereotype internalizations through the immunizing effect of early protective factors, cognitive decoupling of gender identity and professional identity, task-oriented competence construction, and proactive maintenance of emotional boundaries. This paper will address the problem of individual differences in the existing quantitative research and provide transferable theoretical support and practical guidance for cultivating career resilience among women in STEM.

Negative Language may affect people's choices in daily life through two distinct routes: linguistic negation, which is the linguistic polarity of lexicalisation, and negative framing, which focuses on losses or undesirable outcomes. This paper studies how linguistic negation affects pre-decision states and changes the final choice of the negative frame according to cognitive and biological evidence. Based on the prior studies discussed in Section A, linguistic negation increases the cognitive load and reduces decision efficiency. Results of stop-signal tasks indicate that the cognitive resources required for negation processing overlap with those needed for inhibitory control, and event-related potential data have linked negation to delayed semantic reanalysis and integration. Surveys, bilingual and risk-choice studies in Section B have shown that negative framing can change people's judgments of objectively equivalent options in many languages, tasks and people. Neuroimaging studies have identified brain areas involved in gain- and loss-domain framing, and stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex shows that it regulates these decisions to be more rational. In short, the paper does not hold that negative language has a single or always harmful effect on decision-making. The scope of the negativity and the level of decision-making will affect how much of it is revealed.

Interpersonal conflicts among teenagers on campus have attracted widespread attention from the academic community. The association between implicit bias and hostile attribution has become an important research topic in adolescent social development. Previous studies have generally examined individual variables in isolation and have not established a unified analytical framework integrating cognitive, emotional, and personality-related mechanisms. This study, supported by regulatory emotivism and Hayes' second-order moderated mediating model, clarifies the mediating value of state social anxiety and the moderating function of personality traits, and fully explains the cognitive and emotional dual pathways of implicit bias acting on hostile attribution. The results show that implicit bias does not directly predict hostile attribution and that state social anxiety fully mediates this relationship. Personality traits moderate only the second stage of the mediation process. Higher behavioral inhibition sensitivity strengthens the association between social anxiety and hostile cognition. The research enriches the theoretical system of social information processing, supports the stratified campus intervention plan, points out the limitations of cross-sectional data, and makes prospects for the subsequent research on longitudinal tracking and neuroimaging.