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A New Zealand man who was asked by scientists to agree with everything his w
A New Zealand man who was asked by scientists to agree with everything his w
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2023-08-04
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A New Zealand man who was asked by scientists to agree with everything his wife said had to call off the experiment after 12 days because it was proved so harmful to his mental health.
The study was set up to examine the old marriage advice about whether it’s more important to be happy or to be right. Couples therapists sometimes suggest that in a bid to avoid constant arguments, spouses weigh up whether pressing the point is worth the misery of marital discord. The researchers, who are doctors and professors at the University of Auckland, noticed that many of their patients were adding stress to their lives by insisting on being right, even when it worked against their well-being.
So they found a couple who were willing to record their quality of life on a scale of 1 to 10. They told the man, who wanted to be happy more than right, about the purpose of the study and asked him to agree with every opinion and request his wife had without complaint, even when he profoundly didn’t agree. The wife was not informed of the purpose of the study and just asked to record her quality of life.
Things went rapidly downhill for the couple. The man’s quality-of-life scores fell, from 7 to 3, over the course of the experiment. The wife’s scores rose modestly, from 8 to 8.5, before she became hostile to the idea of recording the scores. Rather than causing harmony, the husband’s agreeableness led to the wife becoming increasingly critical of what he did and said (in the husband’s opinion). After 12 days he broke down and the study was called off because of "severe adverse outcomes".
The researchers concluded, shockingly, that humans need to be right and acknowledged as right, at least some of the time, to be happy. In politics, people often note that there can be no peace without justice, and that’s true of the domestic sphere as well. The researchers also noted that this was further proof that if given too much power, humans tend to "assume the alpha (首要的) position and, as with chimpanzees, they become very aggressive and dangerous."
Obviously the results are to be taken with extreme caution, since this was just one couple with who-knows-what underlying issues beforehand. But the study’s chief author, Dr. Burce, maintains that the question of happiness vs. Tightness, theoretically, could be settled by scientific inquiry with a wider sample. "This would include a randomized controlled trial," he says. "However we would be reluctant to do the definitive study because of the concern about divorce or homicide (杀人)." [br] What happened during the experiment?
选项
A、Both the man and his wife felt happier.
B、None of the couple felt happier.
C、The man became much less happier.
D、The wife became much happier.
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据题干中的happened during the experiment定位到原文第四段。该段首句中提到,这对夫妻的生活质量迅速地走了下坡路。随后具体指出,在实验期间,男人的生活质量分数从7分降到了3分,妻子的分数略有上升,从8分升到了8. 5分。由此可知,男士远远不如以前快乐,而女士的快乐程度只是略有提升,故选C。
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