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A New Zealand man who was asked by scientists to agree with everything his wife said had to call off the experiment after 12 day
A New Zealand man who was asked by scientists to agree with everything his wife said had to call off the experiment after 12 day
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2022-07-28
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问题
A New Zealand man who was asked by scientists to agree with everything his wife said had to call off the experiment after 12 days because it was proved so harmful to his mental health.
The study was set up to examine the old marriage advice about whether it’s more important to be happy or to be right. Couples therapists sometimes suggest that in a bid to avoid constant arguments, spouses weigh up whether pressing the point is worth the misery of marital discord. The researchers, who are doctors and professors at the University of Auckland, noticed that many of their patients were adding stress to their lives by insisting on being right, even when it worked against their well-being.
So they found a couple who were willing to record their quality of life on a scale of 1 to 10. They told the man, who wanted to be happy more than right, about the purpose of the study and asked him to agree with every opinion and request his wife had without complaint, even when he profoundly didn’t agree. The wife was not informed of the purpose of the study and just asked to record her quality of life.
Things went rapidly downhill for the couple. The man’s quality-of-life scores fell, from 7 to 3, over the course of the experiment. The wife’s scores rose modestly, from 8 to 8.5, before she became hostile to the idea of recording the scores. Rather than causing harmony, the husband’s agreeableness led to the wife becoming increasingly critical of what he did and said (in the husband’s opinion). After 12 days he broke down and the study was called off because of "severe adverse outcomes".
The researchers concluded, shockingly, that humans need to be right and acknowledged as right, at least some of the time, to be happy. In politics, people often note that there can be no peace without justice, and that’s true of the domestic sphere as well. The researchers also noted that this was further proof that if given too much power, humans tend to "assume the alpha (首要的) position and, as with chimpanzees, they become very aggressive and dangerous."
Obviously the results are to be taken with extreme caution, since this was just one couple with who-knows-what underlying issues beforehand. But the study’s chief author, Dr. Burce, maintains that the question of happiness vs. Tightness, theoretically, could be settled by scientific inquiry with a wider sample. "This would include a randomized controlled trial," he says. "However we would be reluctant to do the definitive study because of the concern about divorce or homicide (杀人)."
What can we learn from Dr. Burce’s words?
选项
A、The results of the study is convincing enough.
B、The study will definitely lead to divorce or homicide.
C、They hope to do more researches with a wider sample.
D、They’re unwilling to continue the study for its bad influence.
答案
D
解析
细节题。根据题干中的Dr. Burce’s words定位到原文最后一段。该段中引用了Dr. Burce的话说道:“理论上可以通过更广泛的样品进行科学探究,包括随机对照实验。然而,考虑到(可能会造成的)离婚和杀人,我们并不愿意做这种权威研究。”由此可知,鉴于该研究可能造成的不良影响,研究人员并不愿意从事该研究,故选D。
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