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Recognizing when a friend or colleague feels sad, angry or surprised is key to getting along with others. But a new study sugges

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问题     Recognizing when a friend or colleague feels sad, angry or surprised is key to getting along with others. But a new study suggests that being sensitive to people’s feelings may sometimes come with an extra dose of stress. This and other research challenge the prevailing view that emotional intelligence is uniformly beneficial to its bearer.
    In a study, psychologists Myriam Bechtoldt of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Germany asked 166 male university students a series of questions to measure their emotional intelligence. For example, they showed the students photographs of people’s faces and asked them to what extent feelings such as happiness or disgust were being expressed. The students then had to give job talks in front of judges who displayed serious facial expressions. The scientists measured concentrations of stress hormones in the students’ saliva (唾液) before and after the talk.
    In students who were rated more emotionally intelligent, the stress measures increased more during the experiment and took longer to go back to baseline. The findings suggest that some people may be too emotionally clever for their own good, says Bechtoldt. "Sometimes you can be so good at something that it causes trouble," she notes.
    Indeed, the study adds to previous research hinting at a dark side of emotional intelligence. A study published in 2002 in Personality and Individual Differences suggested that emotionally perceptive people might be particularly influenced by feelings of depression and hopelessness. Furthermore, several studies have implied that emotional intelligence can be used to manipulate others for personal gains.
    More research is needed to see how exactly the relation between emotional intelligence and stress would play out in women and in people of different ages and education levels. Nevertheless, emotional intelligence is a useful skill to have, as long as you learn to also properly cope with emotions—both others’ and your own, says Bechtoldt. For example, some sensitive individuals may assume responsibility for other people’s sadness or anger, which ultimately stresses them out. Remember, as Bechtoldt says, "you are not responsible for how other people feel."
What was the purpose of psychologist Myriam Bechtoldt’s experiment?
选项 A、To define different types of human feelings.
B、To assess the impacts of being emotionally clever.
C、To demonstrate how to distinguish different feelings.
D、To identify gender differences in emotional intelligence.
答案B
解析 题目询问心理学家米里亚姆.贝赫托尔特的实验目的。第2段总体描述了实验过程，而第3段第1句则表明了实验结果：在实验情境下，情商和压力呈正相关关系，情商越高，压力越大。由此可推知实验的目的是测试情商对压力的影响。第3段第2句是根据实验结果得出的研究结论，即有些人可能因为情绪敏感度太高(too emotionally clever)，反而害到自己。由这两句关于实验结果的说明可知，实验的根本目的是评估情商(对情绪的敏感、感知)的影响，因此B项“评估情绪敏感的影响”符合原文表述，其中emotionally clever是原词复现，故选B项。
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