A snazzy new video from the folks at U.C. Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center gives a brief overview of their research on the unexpected consequences of feeling powerful. Their studies have shown, for example, that even when you give people a teensy bit of (mostly pretend) power, they tend to act in ways that are more impulsive and more selfish.
一段由伯克利加州大學(xué)善科學(xué)中心制作的新演講視頻展示了該中心對(duì)人的權(quán)利意識(shí)導(dǎo)致的意外后果的相關(guān)研究。他們的諸多研究成果中包括如下一條：如果你賦予某人一丁點(diǎn)(幾乎只是假裝的)權(quán)利，他們很可能表現(xiàn)得比以往更為強(qiáng)勢(shì)或自私。
Dacher Keltner, a U.C. Berkeley psychologist, describes what he’s come to call their Cookie Monster study: He and his team divided study participants into groups of three, randomly assigning one person to act as the leader. The researchers gave the trios a relatively boring task and made them work on that for a little while, and then brought in a plate of four cookies. Each participant took one, and they left the fourth for a little while, but in most groups, the leader eventually grabbed the last cookie for themselves.
伯克利大學(xué)的心理學(xué)專家、達(dá)契爾·克特納對(duì)他自稱為“藍(lán)色甜怪餅”研究的項(xiàng)目成果是這樣介紹的：他和他的研究團(tuán)隊(duì)將研究參與者分為三人一組的各個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì)，在各個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì)中隨機(jī)選出一名領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。研究者們對(duì)每隊(duì)三人組合分配一項(xiàng)稍嫌繁瑣的任務(wù)，讓各組花時(shí)間共同完成這一任務(wù)，然后給每組端上一盤四塊餅干。每個(gè)成員都取一塊餅干，將第四塊餅干棄置在盤里，稍過(guò)片刻，然而，在大多數(shù)團(tuán)隊(duì)中，最終都是領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者拿去最后一塊餅干自己吃掉了。
小編注：“藍(lán)色甜怪餅”是是美國(guó)公共廣播協(xié)會(huì)制作播出的兒童教育電視節(jié)目《芝麻街》中的一個(gè)卡通角色。
But Keltner says that one of his grad students noticed something they weren’t exactly expecting: an apparent correlation between perceived power and terrible table manners. "He came to me and he’s like, I think people are eating differently when they have power," Keltner says in the video. "And, lo and behold, our high-power person is more likely to eat with their mouth open, lips smacking, crumbs literally like falling onto their sweater. It’s ridiculous."
不過(guò)，克特納稱他的一個(gè)研究生注意到了一種出人意料的現(xiàn)象：權(quán)利意識(shí)和糟糕的餐桌禮儀之間有著明顯的聯(lián)系�！八哌^(guò)來(lái)，對(duì)我說(shuō)，‘我覺(jué)得，當(dāng)人們掌握權(quán)力的時(shí)候，他們飲食的方式會(huì)發(fā)生變化�！笨颂丶{在視頻里說(shuō)，“你瞧，那些手握重權(quán)的人吃飯時(shí)往往是大張著嘴，咂著嘴唇，食物殘雜如雨一般落到他們的衣服上。一副滑稽模樣�！�