評論
打印
Social Status Affects Who We Choose To Believe
社會地位影響我們的信任度
[Audio clip of President Reagan saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”]
戈爾巴喬夫先生，推到這塊墻吧！
Sounds pretty powerful. You might believe it will actually happen.
聽起來很有力度。或許你會相信它會真的發生。
But what if this guy were to say the same thing: [Audio clip of ordinary guy saying the same thing]
但是如果換作這個人說同樣的話呢？
Hmmm. Maybe not so much. Because a study finds that the social status of a speaker makes a significant difference in how we interpret statements they make.
嗯，或許不這么令人信服。因為一項研究發現，一個發言人的社會地位會在我們聽取其陳述的時候發揮很重要的作用。
Scientists showed participants clips of political statements, that were either true or false, made by a top politician, a news anchor or just your average joe. The participants also watched another set of videos, this time of the same people making true or false statements about general world information like, “Fidel Castro is a pop singer.”
科學家給試驗者放政治演說片段，有的是一位頂級政治家說的，有的是新聞主播說的，有的是平常人說的，或真或假。試驗者也看了另一組視頻，這一次是同樣的人講述正常世界信息，或真或假，例如：“菲德爾·卡斯特羅是一個流行歌手。”
The subjects were more likely to accept the false statement coming from the political figure as opposed to the other speakers (including the news anchor!) However, participants did not accept any false world knowledge statements from any of the speakers. Brain recordings of the subjects reveal that their impressions of the speaker and what he or she says, happens very fast, within 150-450 milliseconds, which is within average reflex reaction time for humans. The study is in the journal PLoS One.
試驗者更相信政治人物所說的話，而不是其他人說的，甚至包括新聞主播。然而，試驗者不接受任何人說的假的常識。腦活動記錄顯示試驗者對發言人及其講話內容的印象發生的很快，在150到450毫秒之間，低于人類反射反應時間。研究發表在《公共科學圖書館·綜合》期刊上。
Of course, given enough time, even a politician’s biggest supporter will accept that something he said isn’t true: [Audio clip of President Clinton saying: "I want you to listen to me, I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."]
當然，給予充足時間，即使是一個政治家的死忠支持者都會接受其所說的話有些是假的。“你們聽我說，我重申一遍，我絕對沒有和這個叫萊溫斯基的女士發生過性關系。”
—Christie Nicholson
