The team gathered 54 UC students who knew Spanish as a second language to place bets on a coin toss。
研究团队对芝加哥大学内54名以西班牙语为第二语言的学生进行了调查,参加实验的学生被要求参加猜硬币正反面的游戏。
Each student was given $15 in dollar bills, and could bet $1 at a time on either heads or tails. If they bet and won, they could win $1.50, and lost nothing if they did not bet。
每名参与调查的学生都有15美元可下注,每次用1美元猜抛出的硬币是正面还是反面。如果他们猜对了,就可以赢得1.5美元。如果他们不下注,就不会损失任何钱。
When they were given the experiment in English, the students acted narrow-mindedly, and took the bet only about half of the time。
当这些学生们在实验过程中说英语的时候,他们思路狭窄,在游戏中有一半的时间内并没有下注。
But when the same students heard instructions in Spanish, they bet 74 per cent of the time。
但是当研究者们用西班牙语讲述游戏规则的时候,这些参与调查的学生在游戏74%的时间里都愿意下注。
The conclusion, then, these scientists believe, is that thinking in a foreign language distances people from snap emotional decisions, allowing decisions to be more logical。
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