本序言敘述為什麼中華心理學刊出版「漢字詞處理」本特刊。本序言欲回答為什麼過去的十年中有關漢字詞處理的一些重要發現不容易重覆的原因。本序言首先敘述現時的研究背景,然後將不易重覆一些重要發現歸因於兩個因素,即受試者態度與作業的特殊性。
This introduction describes why Chinese Journal of Psychology publishes this special issue on Chinese character/word processing. It attempts to answer the question of why some of the important published findings on Chinese character/word processing in the last decade could not be replicated by many investigators. It starts by describing the prevailing research background, and then ascribes the difficulty in replicating the published findings to two possible factors: differences in participants’ attitude and task specificity.