右手食指和无名指决定你的报复心强度(双语).docVIP

右手食指和无名指决定你的报复心强度（双语） 　　Lets say you recently turned someone down for a raise or a promotion, and he has now retaliated -- for instance, by quitting in a huff and taking a valuable client list with him。假设你最近拒绝给某人涨工资或者升职，现在他开始实施报复——比如，愤然辞职并且带走了一份重要的客户名单。 　　According to a new study of the role of testosterone in business negotiations, you might have foreseen that, and maybe even prevented it, if you had checked out his right hand before making (or refusing) an offer. Specifically, if someones ring finger and his index finger are the same length, look out。一项关于睾丸激素在商业谈判中所起作用的最新研究表明，如果你在提出(或者拒绝)一项提议之前，能够检查一下对方的右手，你就有可能预料到会发生上述事件，甚至还有可能避免出现这种事。具体说来就是，如果某人右手的无名指和食指一样长的话，那你就得小心了。 　　Little or no difference in the size of those digits is an indicator of high prenatal testosterone, which tells you two things. First, this is a person who is preoccupied with preserving his status and saving face. Unless you handle his ego with kid gloves, he will be quick to take offense. And second, if you cross him, he will get even。如果这两只手指的长度一样或者非常接近，则说明手的主人出生前体内睾丸激素含量就很高，这又进一步说明两点。首先，此人会不惜一切保全自己的地位，维护自己的面子。除非你时时照顾他的自尊，否则他很容易怀恨在心。其次，你跟他作对，他就会实施报复。 　　Thats the conclusion of an intriguing study called Lex talionis: Testosterone and the law of retaliation, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology。上述是一项名为《Lex talionis：睾丸激素与报复定律》的研究得出的结论。该研究将会发布在下一期的《实验社会心理学杂志》上。 　　Lex talionis is Latin for retributive justice, and heres how the experiment went down: Researchers from Columbia Business School and the Kellogg School at Northwestern put 48 randomly selected volunteers through two rounds of negotiations. Lex talionis是拉丁文，意为“因果应报”。该项实验是这样进行的：哥伦比亚商学院[微博]和西北大学[微博]凯洛格商学院的研究人员从志愿者中随机抽取48人，让其参加两轮议价。 　　The first bargaining session was rigged so that the test subjects were, in effect, cheated out of $40 they had thought they could win. In the second round, which the subjects were not told about ahead of time, the researchers turned the tables so that, this time