• 囧研究:悲伤有哪些好处?

    有用的机动性目的,[/cn] [en]There is now growing evidence that negative moods, like sadness, has psychological benefits.[/en][cn]越来越多的证据表明诸如悲伤一类的负面情绪,对人的身体是有益的。[/cn] [en]Feeling sad or in a bad mood produces a number of benefits:[/en][cn]悲伤或者短时间的坏情绪有以下几点好处:[/cn] [en]better memory: In one study, a bad mood (caused by bad weather) resulted in people better remembering the details of a shop they just left. Bad mood can also improve eyewitness memories by reducing the effects of various distractions, like irrelevant, false or misleading information.[/en][cn]良好的记忆力:一项研究表明,由恶劣天气引起的坏情绪会使人们更清楚地记得自己刚刚去过的商店。我们通常会受到其他事物的干扰,比如无关的错误的或是误人子弟的信息,负面情绪还会通过消除干扰物的影响来提高人们的视觉记忆。[/cn] [en]more accurate judgements: A mild bad mood also reduces some biases and distortions in how people form impressions. For instance, slightly sad judges formed more accurate and reliable impressions about others because they processed details more effectively. We found that bad moods also reduced gullibility and increased scepticism when evaluating urban myths and rumours, and even improved people's ability to more accurately detect deception. People in a mild bad mood are also less likely to rely on simplistic stereotypes.[/en][cn]更加敏锐的判断力:相对和缓的坏情绪也会减少人们印象中的偏见和失真之处。处于消极情绪中的人也相对较少地依赖简单的刻板印象。[/cn] [en]motivation: Other experiments found that when happy and sad participants were asked to perform a difficult mental task, those in a bad mood tried harder and persevered more. They spent more time on the task, attempted more questions and produced more correct answers.[/en][cn]激励作用:还有一些实验表明,处于积极情绪和消极情绪的试验者在处理同一难度的任务时,处于消极中的人会表现得更加努力,坚持得

  • 囧研究 下午4:12最爱吃零食

    自己下午吃零食归咎于正餐味道不好,36%的人则表示看到其他人吃零食,自己就更难克制(不吃零食)。[/cn] [en]Men, however, do seem to have more [w]willpower[/w] when it comes to diets with over two thirds (69 per cent) sticking to their diet one month in, compared to 63 per cent of women.[/en][cn]不过,男性坚持正常饮食的意志力比女性更强,超过三分之二(69%)的男性能在一个月内坚持规律饮食,而同样能

  • 囧研究:为何Siri语音助手都是女声?

    面的研究进行了调研,比如人们对男性和女性声音的感知方式差异。举个例子,印第安纳大学的一位主要研究人机交互的教授卡尔·麦克道曼曾经进行过这样一个研究:[/cn] [en]He and fellow researchers played clips of male and female voices to people of both genders, then asked them to identify which they preferred. The researchers also measured the way participants actually responded to the voices. In a 2011 paper, they reported that both women and men said female voices came across as warmer. In practice, women even showed a subconscious preference for responding to females; men remained [w]subconsciously[/w] neutral. “Men will say they prefer female speech, and women really do prefer it,” MacDorman says.[/en][cn]他和其他研究人员给参与男女两性声音测试的志愿者分别播放了男性声音和女性声音的片段,让这些志愿者听完之后确定并选出所喜欢的声音。与此同时,研究人员还对志愿者对声音的反馈进行了测量。他们曾在 2011 年的一篇文章中指出,女性和男性志愿者都认为女性的声音听起来比较温暖人心。实验证明,女性志愿者对女性的声音表现出了一种潜意识上的喜好,而男性志愿者则仍潜意识地

  • 囧研究:异性恋女子喜欢看男男浪漫故事

    [en]• Straight men prefer heavier women to thinner females and find feet erotic, finds surprising survey of online searches. [/en][cn]直男更喜欢丰满的女性,并认为女人的脚是最性感的。[/cn] [en]• Straight women enjoy reading about and watching romances between two men, but only when the focus is on emotion and not sex. [/en][cn]异性恋女子很喜欢阅读两个男人间的浪漫故事,但重点是在情感而非性关系。[/cn] [en]Scientists have finally got a grip on our deepest sexual desires - by looking at what people type into Google. They have examined one billion online sex-related searches from around the world to find out what users click on when no one else is looking. [/en][cn]科学家通过对google上被搜索的与“性”相关的关键词进行研究,得出一些很有趣的结果。如上面两条就是。[/cn] [en]Gay men and straight men were found to have the same favourite body parts, which in order are chests, buttocks then feet. [/en][cn]直男和非直男眼中最性感的身体部位是一样的,依次是胸、臀部和脚。[/cn]

  • 囧研究:这个世界上真有第二个你!几率是……

    理了大量数据信息,探讨了两个人在8个关键面部特征上完全吻合的可能性。[/cn] [en]They found that there's about a one in 135 chance that a pair of complete doppelgängers exist somewhere in the world. But the likelihood of someone walking around looking identical to you, specifically, in all eight facial features is only one in 1 trillion. Creepy, but not very likely.[/en][cn]他们发现在世界上的某个地方存在一对完

  • 囧研究:颜值高的人智商高!

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  • 囧研究:你的智商取决于身边人的智商!

    更聪明。[/cn] [en]New research shows that intelligence is not fixed but can be boosted throughout [w]adulthood[/w] by family members, bright mates and intellectually stretching careers.[/en][cn]新研究指出,在整个成年期里,智力不是固定不变的,而是可以通过家庭成员、聪明的伙伴以及用智力拓展的事业来提高的。[/cn] [en]The study challenges the commonly held notion

  • 囧研究:中国人发现石头剪刀布致胜绝招!

    何在石头剪刀布的游戏中取得胜利?这个问题长久以来一直困扰着数学家和博弈论理论家,信不信由你。前人已经就这个问题建立了一套理论,而中国浙江大学一位名叫王志坚的研究员则通过一项真人实验对前人的理论进行了十分有趣的拓展。[/cn] [en]In the experiment, Zhijian noticed that winning players tended to stick with their winning strategy, while losers

  • 囧研究:每天睡多几个小时才最健康?

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  • 囧研究:为什么男性感冒好的要比女性快?

    就是意味着能让他们更快地从流感中恢复。[/cn] [en]“The novel finding here is that females also have slower tissue-repair during recovery, due to relatively low production of amphiregulin,” said lead author Sabra Klein, PhD, who works as an associate professor at Bloomberg School.[/en][cn]“这一新发现揭示了,女性组织修复较慢的原因是,产生双向调节因子的水平比较低。”该研究的主笔Sabra Klein博士,同时也是在彭博学院的副教授这样说到。[/cn] (翻译:林浔鸥)