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
考研
Like the flu, a person’s emotional state can be contagious. Watch someone cry, and you’ll likely feel sad; think about the elder
Like the flu, a person’s emotional state can be contagious. Watch someone cry, and you’ll likely feel sad; think about the elder
admin
2019-09-30
59
问题
Like the flu, a person’s emotional state can be contagious. Watch someone cry, and you’ll likely feel sad; think about the elderly, and you’ll tend to walk slower. Now a study suggests that we can also catch someone else’s irrational thought processes.
Anyone who’s lost money on a house in need of repair may have succumbed to a classic economic fallacy known as "sunk costs." You make a bad investment in a home that’s never going to sell for more than you put in to it, yet you want to justify your investment by continuing to throw money into renovations. One way to avoid this hole is to get advice from someone who has no self-interest in the project. But is the outsider still somehow susceptible to your mindset?
To find out, social psychologist Adam Galinsky of Northwestern University and colleagues asked college students to take over decision-making for a person they had never met—and who they didn’t know was fake. The volunteers were split into two groups: one that felt some connection with the decisionmaker and another that didn’t.
In one experiment, the volunteers watched the following scenario play out via text on a computer screen: the fake decision-maker tried to outbid another person for a prize of 356 points, which equaled $4.45 in real money. The decision-maker started out with 360 points, and every time the other bidder raised the stakes by 40 points, the decision-maker followed suit. Volunteers were told that once the decision-maker bid over 356 points, he or she would begin to lose some of the $12 payment for participating in the study.
When the decision-maker neared this threshold, the volunteers were asked to take over bidding. Objectively, the volunteers should have realized that—like the person who makes a bad investment in a house—the decision-maker would keep throwing good money after bad. But the volunteers who felt identification with the fake player made almost 60% more bids and were more likely to lose money than those who didn’t feel a connection.
Galinsky believes that the results suggest that companies trying to reverse results of bad decisions should find true outsiders. He points to troubled automaker Ford as an example. Instead of hiring from within—as General Motors (GM) recently did—Ford made Alan Mulally from Boeing, an aerospace company, their chief executive officer. Many experts believe that Ford is now recovering quicker than GM. "It’s true that insiders have more knowledge," Galinsky says. "But when you are already down the road of a failed course of action, you really need... a true outsider."
Which of the following is true of the experiment conducted by Galinsky?
选项
A、The participating students turn out susceptible to the mindset of the decision-maker.
B、The students were supposed to outbid another person for a prize of 356 points.
C、The volunteers each were paid 12 dollars for participating in the experiment.
D、The volunteers actually lost all their payment because they made worse investment.
答案
C
解析
是非判断题。根据experiment以及Galinsky定位第三、四段。其中第四段最后一句话提到“他或她将开始失去他们参加这项研究的12美元酬劳中的一些钱。”由此可知志愿者参加实验的酬劳为12美元。故C项正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/yYe4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Excitement,fatigue,andanxietycanallbedetectedfromsomeone’sblinks,accordingtopsychologistJohnStern(21)Washington
Excitement,fatigue,andanxietycanallbedetectedfromsomeone’sblinks,accordingtopsychologistJohnStern(21)Washington
TheUnitedStateshashistoricallyhadhigherratesofmarriagethanthoseofotherindustrializedcountries.Thecurrentannual
TheUnitedStateshashistoricallyhadhigherratesofmarriagethanthoseofotherindustrializedcountries.Thecurrentannual
Readthefollowingtextandanswerquestionsbyfindinginformationfromtherightcolumnthatcorrespondstoeachofthemarked
WilltheEuropeanUnionmakeit?Thequestionwouldhavesoundedstrangenotlongago.Noweventheproject’sgreatestcheerlead
Peopleinbusinesscanuseforesighttoidentifynewproductsandservices,aswellasmarketsforthoseproductsandservices.
Peopleinbusinesscanuseforesighttoidentifynewproductsandservices,aswellasmarketsforthoseproductsandservices.
Workingfarawayfromhome,Jerryhadto______fromdowntowntohisofficeeveryday.
Theterm"Followyourpassion"hasincreasedninefoldinEnglishbookssince1990."Findsomethingyoulovetodoandyou’llnev
随机试题
Apgar评分判断新生儿临床恶化的顺序是
下列选项,哪项中含有保护期限不受时间限制的知识产权?()
简述深静脉置管术的适应证。
下列不符合非感染性内膜炎的描述是
生化药物的鉴别试验常以标准品或对照品作阳性对照,目的是
患者女,40岁,“宫颈糜烂”手术治疗后,为病人提供护理内容正确的是
特别适合用于与不易见面的家长联系的书面联系形式是()。
省、自治、真辖市的人发代表大会常务委员会在本级人发代表大会闭会期间,经()通过,可以、罢免本级人民代表大会选出的个别全国人民代表大会代表。
一个运动队有多个队员,一个队员仅属于一个运动队,一个队一般都有一个教练,则实体运动队和队员的联系是
Youwillnowlistentoaconversation.Youwillthenbeaskedaquestionaboutit.Afteryouhearthequestion,youwillhave20
最新回复
(
0
)