【跪求２０００字左右的英文文章】
- 提问者网友：相思故
- 2021-05-11 23:45
- 二级知识专家网友：哭不代表软弱
- 2021-05-12 00:49
类别：心理研究类，经济类
中心思想：作者探讨了一个试图证明钱能使人变得冷漠坚硬的实验并对其质疑
Wonder why some wealthy people seem so aloof? How about this for an answer?
A series of studies published in Psychological Science found that money can influence responses to both emotional and physical pain. Specifically, the researchers found that handling physical money makes a person less sensitive to physical pain and reduces the distress of being excluded in social situations.
In other words, wealth makes you as hard and cold as steel. Or so the study says.
The methodologies for this study were odd to say the least.
For one of the tests, test subjects were told to count out a stack of $100 dollar bills and then immerse their hands in hot water (109 degrees). Those who handled the money reported less pain than those who handled slips of blank paper.
In another, a group of students counted the stack of $100 bills and then played a computer game involving a ball toss with three other simulated players. Some of the players were excluded from the ball toss during the game. Those who handled the money felt little or no distress at being excluded, while those who handled paper felt lower self-esteem.
'Acquired symbolic value of money, perhaps because of associations with power or control, can influence responses to both emotional and physical pain,' writes Harriet de Wit, a psychiatry professor at the University of Chicago. 'Conversely, thoughts of monetary loss may enhance physical or psychological pain.'
I don't know about the pain part. Money can certainly buy some good prescription pain killers.
In my own experience, money doesn't seem to insulate the wealthy from their need to be liked. In fact, some of the wealthy I know seem to have a greater need to be liked than the nonwealthy I know.
Do you think the studies findings are accurate? Does money dull physical or emotional pain?
- 1楼网友：我们只是兮以城空
- 2021-05-12 02:31
- 2楼网友：蜜罐小熊
- 2021-05-12 02:07