时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(四)月


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   You're in the supermarket, picking a breakfast cereal. Will it be cinnamon raisin 1 or oats in honey. Hard to decide? Well, what if I told you they both cost the same, would that make it easier? Well, a new study suggests it would not. Because researchers have found that uniform pricing actually accentuates 2 the differences between products, which makes it harder to choose. The results appear in the journal Psychological Science. Consumer psychology 3 is big business. To explore how pricing can sway customer choice, researchers took volunteers on an immaginary shopping spree. Subjects were presented with photos, descriptions and price tags for pairs of similar items, say two different kinds of tea or a couple packs of gum. When the prices were a bit different, the products were seen as being similar. That perceived similarity  made it easier for subjects to choose between them. Perhaps because one seemed as good as the other. But when the price tags were identical, subjects actually rated the items being less similar, perhaps because they were forced to focus on what made the products different, such as flavor. Now, back to the breakfast cereal, will it be whole milk or 2%?



n.葡萄干
  • They baked us raisin bread.他们给我们烤葡萄干面包。
  • You can also make raisin scones.你也可以做葡萄干烤饼。
v.重读( accentuate的第三人称单数 );使突出;使恶化;加重音符号于
  • The dark frame accentuates the brightness of the picture. 深色画框更显出画的明亮色彩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Her sunburnt skin accentuates the fairness of her hair. 她那晒黑了的皮肤突出了她的一头金发。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.心理,心理学,心理状态
  • She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
  • He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
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adaptive edge-preserving filter
airportlike
Akop
al batha (bat-ha)
angle float
Arros
aspector
at one blast
ballometer
be held captive
be in credit
Beaufort (wind) scale
Berkeley clay
beslaber
bioenergy
ca-clippers
capital string
China Ocean Shipping Company Chartering Department
civilianize
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combat assessment
contracted form
Cryptanthus
damped down
delivery on call
dentin filing
docking telephone
downstroying
drawing compass
earthy impurity
effective homogeneity
electrodynamic wattmeter
Epigynum auritum
equidensitography
extasy
flat-lock stitch
foxnuts
fuel consumption cost
grudgeholders
heart-throb
hildenbrands
I-pili
indexable insert tip periphery grinding machine
interference eliminator
intracranial venous thrombosis
investment molding
Irish water spaniel
job activity
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kurs
lacking the ability to resist disease
Lareactors
leather and prunello
lieus
lustly
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main courses
multi-layered system
multiple fork type blade root
pachymucosa
pondokkies
possum oak
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psychological isolation
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quantity index number
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radices iwarancusae
Radφy
Ranunculus aquatilis
razor-slashes
refrigeration equipment
ribbed roller
rolled-tube
rubber cushion assembly
Saastal
San Gimignano
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satellite zenith angle
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simplehearted
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smohalla
spar with
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suis
thermotostat
tone rendering
totally held subsidiary
Transit satellite
tread rubber
tristimulus mask colorimeter
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welfare reaction curve