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How does the shape of a glass affect how much you drink?
水杯的形狀是怎樣影響喝水量的呢?
A scientist set out to examine just this, and the results are rather astounding.
一位科學家打算調查一下，調查結果相當令人驚訝。
Whatever the age of the subjects, they consistently poured more juice into short, wide tumbler-type glasses than into tall, slender glasses.
不管被試者年齡如何，他們都一致地往寬的平底型杯里倒的橘汁比往高細杯里倒的多。
But they perceived the opposite that they were pouring more into tall, slender glasses.
但是他們自己所感知的卻剛好相反。他們認為往高細杯里倒的更多。
Psychologist Jean Piaget claimed that children overestimate the volume of vertical dimensions,
心理學家珍皮亞杰聲稱孩子們會高估垂直方向的容器容量，
but that as their brains mature, they develop the capacity to more accurately compare vertical and horizontal dimensions.
但是當他們大腦成熟時他們就會具備準確區分垂直向和水平向容量的能力。
The results of this study do support Piaget's idea
該研究結果在某種程度上支持了皮亞杰的觀點
to a certain extent in that the differential between the amount of juice adults poured into the two different glasses was less than the difference in what teenagers poured.
成人倒往不同杯子里相差的橘汁少于青少年倒往不同杯子里相差的橘汁。
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