You are often eager to receive other people’s love and admiration. Sometimes you doubt whether you have made the right decision. You prefer a certain level of variety and feel annoyed when you are restricted. Do any of these statements seem to describe you? Even if they all do, almost everyone can relate to these statements. These declarations can lead to the Barnum effect. It is a common psychological phenomenon that makes people feel that personality descriptions are specifically tailored to them.
你常常渴望得到他人的愛和讚賞。有時你會懷疑自己是否做了正確的決定。你偏好一定程度的變化，當你受到限制時，你會感到惱火。這些陳述當中，有沒有任何一項感覺像是在描述你？即使全部都符合，幾乎每個人都能對這些陳述產生共鳴。這些陳述會導致巴納姆效應。這是一種常見的心理現象，它使人們感覺到性格描述是專門為他們量身定制的。
生活必備字詞：
admiration n. 讚賞；欽佩
annoyed a. 惱怒的
relate to... 對……產生共鳴
psychological a. 心理的
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本文節錄自《常春藤生活英語》雜誌，完整內容請見七月號。
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