【双语阅读】为什么我们都很八卦.docVIP

【双语阅读】为什么我们都很八卦

【双语阅读】为什么我们都很八卦,,

2014-11-19英语家园论坛英语家园

Didyouhearwhathappenedatyesterday’smeeting?Canyoubelieveit?Ifyoufindthosesortofquietlywhisperedquestionsabout

yourco-workersirresistible,you’rehardlyalone.Butwhyarewedrawntogossip?

你听说昨天开会的时候发生了什么吗？你能信？如果你发觉和同事间这样低声细语的八卦简直

无法抗拒的话,恭喜你,你并不是一个人。不过,为何人们都喜欢八卦呢？

Anewstudysuggestsit’sbecausetherumors,innuendo,and

hearsayareultimatelyallaboutus—wherewerateinthe

unofficiallocalhierarchy,andhowwemightimproveourstanding.

最近一项研究表明,那些流言蜚语最终都归结于我们自己——即我们在别人眼中的层次以及我

们该如何提升该地位。

“Gossiprecipientstendtousepositiveandnegativegroup

informationtoimprove,promote,andprotecttheself,”writesa

researchteamledbyElenaMartinescuoftheUniversityof

GroningenintheNetherlands.“Individualsneedevaluative

informationaboutotherstoevaluatethemselves.”

“那些喜欢八卦的人倾向于用积极的和消极的信息来提升,改善和保护他们自己,”来自荷兰格

罗宁根大学的研究团队的领头人ElenaMartinescu如此写到。“个体需要通过他人的评价信息

来评估他们自己。”

WritinginthejournalPersonalityandSocialPsychologyBulletin,theresearchersdescribetwoexperimentstestingthepersonalvaluegossiprecipientsderive.Thefirstfeatured178university

undergraduateswhohadallpreviouslyworkedonatleastonecourseassignmentwithagroupoffourormorestudents.

该文被发表在《个性学与社会心理学》通报上,研究人员描述了通过两个实验测试八卦者的自我

价值判断。第一个实验邀请了178名大学本科生,他们都曾在完成课堂作业时,和其他至少四

名同学组成一个小组。

Participants“wereaskedtorecallandwriteashort

descriptionofanincidentinwhichagroupmembersshared

withthemeitherpositiveornegativeinformationabout

anothergroupmember’sconfidence,”theresearcherswrite.(Eighty-five

receivedapositivereport,93anegativeone.)Theythenreportedtheirlevelofagreementwithaseriesofstatements.Someofthesemeasuredtheself-improvementvalueofthegossip(“Theinformationreceivedmade

methinkIcanlearnalotfromX”);othersmeasureditsself-promotion

value(“TheinformationIreceivedmademefeelthatIam