「漢字詞處理」序言

Introduction to Chinese Character/Word Processing

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. Many papers on Chinese language processing have been published in psychology journals in the last decade. If most research findings reported in these papers are replicable, they certainly accelerate the progress of research in this area. On the other hand, if many of the research findings published in these papers cannot be replicated, more than twice the effort has to be expended to remedy misdirected lines of research. Recently, researchers in Taiwan have become convinced that it is not just a few published research findings that are not replicable, but some important published findings that are not replicable. This prompted the Chinese Journal of Psychology to publish a special issue on Chinese character/word processing.