最新研究：散播流言也有好处？！（双语）_时事

最新研究：散播流言也有好处？！（双语）

Gossip is healthy because it helps calm you down and is important in maintaining social order, a new study claims.

一项新研究称，散播流言有益健康，因为散播流言能让人平静下来，对于维持社会秩序也很重要。

Idle chatter in the workplace or over a coffee is often viewed as a damaging habit which spreads salacious rumours and harms people's reputations.

在工作场所闲聊或边喝咖啡边聊天常被视为有害的习惯，因为它会传播下流的谣言，损害人们的名誉。

But new research suggests gossip could actually lower stress and help people overcome the frustration of seeing someone doing something wrong and getting away with it.

然而新研究显示，散播流言其实能减轻压力，帮助人们克服看到有人做错事却没受惩罚的挫败感。

Psychologists from the University of California, Berkeley, found that volunteers' heart rates rose when they observed someone misbehaving, but that this stopped when they were allowed to discuss what they had seen with others.

来自加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的心理学家发现，当参加研究的志愿者看到某些人行为不端时心跳会加速，但当他们可以和别人谈论自己所看到的事情时心跳又会恢复正常。

The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, focused on "prosocial" gossip which helps spread information about dishonest people rather than voyeuristic chatter about celebrities' love lives, the researchers said.