首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Faced with a mission-critical decision, who would you turn to for advice? Someone you had great confidence in, surely. But sever
Faced with a mission-critical decision, who would you turn to for advice? Someone you had great confidence in, surely. But sever
admin
2011-05-12
62
问题
Faced with a mission-critical decision, who would you turn to for advice? Someone you had great confidence in, surely. But several lines of research show that our instincts about where to turn to for counsel are often not completely correct.
My research looks at prejudices that affect how people use advice, including why they often blindly follow recommendations from people who—as far as they know—are as knowledgeable as they are. In studies I conducted with Don Moore of Carnegie Mellon University, for example, I found that people tend to overvalue advice when the problem they’re addressing is hard and to undervalue it when the problem is easy.
In our experiments, subjects were asked to guess the weight of people in various pictures, some of which were in focus and some of which were unclear. For each picture, subjects guessed twice: the first time without advice and the second time with input from another participant. When the pictures were in focus, we found, subjects tended to discount the advice; apparently, they were confident in their ability to guess correctly. When the pictures were unclear, subjects leaned heavily on the advice of others and seemed less secure about their initial opinion. Because they misjudged the value of the advice they received-—consistently overvaluing or undervaluing it depending on the difficulty of the problem—our subjects did not make the best guesses overall. They would have done better if they’d considered the advice equally, and to a moderate degree, on both hard and easy tasks.
Another advice-related prejudice I’ve found compels people to overvalue advice that they pay for. In one study I conducted, subjects answered different sets of questions about American history. Before answering some of the questions, they could get advice on the correct answer from another subject whom they knew was no more expert than they were. In one version of the experiment, people could get advice for free, while in another version, they paid for it. When they paid for advice, people tended to have firm belief in it, I suspect, by a combination of sunk-cost prejudice and the nearly instinctual belief that cost and quality are linked.
The two experiments mentioned in the text reveal_______.
选项
A、how to follow others’ advice
B、how to understand others’ advice
C、what causes people to seek advice
D、what affects people’s attitude to advice
答案
D
解析
推理题。从文章中得知,第一个实验是为了测试客观条件对人们是否依赖他人建议的影响,第二个是为了判断付费对人们是否依赖他人建议的影响。故选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/dTjd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语三级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语三级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
CustomsofficersataLondonairportyesterdayfound$500,000worthofdrugswhichwerebeingsmuggled(走私)intoBritaininboxes
Readthefollowingarticleinwhichfivepeopletalkaboutthefuture.ForQuestion61to65,matchthenameofeachspeakert
Astheconversationbegins,whatarethemanandwomandoing?
Weshouldalsoknowthat"greed"islittlerelatedtotheenvironmentalcrisis.Thetwomainfactorsarepopulationpressures,e
Weshouldalsoknowthat"greed"islittlerelatedtotheenvironmentalcrisis.Thetwomainfactorsarepopulationpressures,e
About10AmericanstudentswillcometoyourschoolforavisitonSunday,July5,2004.Pleasewriteanannouncementtoinformt
Whatdidthemanthinkofthefoodattheschoolrestaurant?
Thepicnics,speeches,andparadesoftoday’sLaborDaywereallpartofthefirstcelebration,heldinNewYorkCityin1882.I
Whatshouldyouthinkaboutintryingtofindyourcareer?Youareprobablybetteratsomeschoolsubjectsthanothers.Thesema
WriteacongratulationlettertoyourcounterpartinanothercountrywhohasrecentlybeenpromotedtobetheMinisterofTrade.
随机试题
A骨缺血坏死B骨折延迟愈合C神经损伤D血管损伤E骨筋膜室综合征腓骨颈骨折
根据阴阳属性的可分性。五脏中属于阳中之阴的脏是
下述哪项措施不是全科医生日常一级预防工作的内容
以下所列调配门诊处方的程序中,正确的是()。
A.10℃B.15℃C.20℃D.25℃E.30℃
活动隔墙与玻璃隔墙每批应至少抽查20%,并不得少于()间。
下列对启事表述不准确的是()。
当代教师的素养集中体现在教师的()方面。
班杜拉将观察学习分为()四个学习子过程。
我国人民之所以是国家的主人,根本原因在于我国建立了生产资料公有制,个人利益和国家利益在根本上是一致的。()
最新回复
(
0
)