雅思阅读习题解析：The Triumph of Unreason.docx

智课网IELTS备考资料雅思阅读习题解析：The Triumph of Unreason 摘要： 今天小编为大家带来关于雅思阅读习题解析的内容，希望通过今天小编为大家进行的介绍，大家能够对这类题型有一个大致的了解，并且预祝大家在雅思阅读中能取得优异的成绩。 以下是北京 小马 过河 雅思 培训小编为大家整理的 雅思阅读 练习题及解析，供大家练习： The Triumph of Unreason A. Neoclassical economics is built on the assumption that humans are rational beings who have a clear idea of their best interests and strive to extract maximum benefit (or “utility”, in economist-speak) from any situation. Neoclassical economics assumes that the process of decision-making is rational. But that contradicts growing evidence that decision-making draws on the emotions—even when reason is clearly involved. B. The role of emotions in decisions makes perfect sense. For situations met frequently in the past, such as obtaining food and mates, and confronting or fleeing from threats, the neural mechanisms required to weigh up the pros and cons will have been honed by evolution to produce an optimal outcome. Since emotion is the mechanism by which animals are prodded towards such outcomes, evolutionary and economic theory predict the same practical consequences for utility in these cases. But does this still apply when the ancestral machinery has to respond to the stimuli of urban modernity? C. One of the people who thinks that it does not is George Lowenstein, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. In particular, he suspects that modern shopping has subverted the decision-making machinery in a way that encourages people to run up debt. To prove the point he has teamed up with two psychologists, Brian Knutson of Stanford University and Drazen Prelec of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to look at what happens in the brain when it is deciding what to buy. D. In a study, the three researchers asked 26 volunteers to decide whether to buy a series of products such as a box of chocolates or a DVD of the television show that were flashed on a computer screen one after another. In each round of the task, the researchers first presented t