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


英语课

   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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a rolling stone gathers no moss
a.o.e.
aba al hinshan mt.
acid test
actualmente
alumotungstite
amphibiously
antitime
aoria nigripes
arsenio-
arterial/venous
at the party
bardlings
bend the bow of Ulyesses
biscottis
breakpoint trigger
cerium(iii) chlorate
clearance between bubble cap and tray
cosine-cam wave generator
cross-contamination
Cystyl-aminopeptidase
daphs
dead rent
deauthorised
degree of intensive farming
distinguishing analysis
double deflation approach
double-current method
doughtie
epithelial inclusion
existlessness
face(-plate) lathe
fluid mechanics
forcipomyia (lasiohelea) humilavolita
gothicizing
gravitational center of wagon loaded
ground protection
hiddenness
Honefoss
hour corrector
hygroscopic compound air-conditioning system
in the wrong place at the wrong time
incidental variation
index dial
Isoparorchis trisimilitubis
lattice bridge
laugh fit to kill
lead sb on
Linea nuchalis inferior
losse
lug pad
M'Naghten rules
make out that
map border
master track bushing
meliola symplocicola
motor element
nanopublishing
neoculturation
nighthawks
noncooperative equilibrium
outside door handle
outsilences
panographic
periporitis staphylogenes
phagolysosomes
pinholds
poisson
pompeiian dance (italy)
positive variation
power switchboard
power-assisted braking system
prestidigitations
profit-volume graph
proof by documentary evidence
provisional job
punctural
radio emissions
rate of growth
reflection coefficient plane
response equation
reversal experimental design
revests
rhamnosyltransferase
risk of oil
roab
signal distributor
sintering compact
spokeshaves
statistic detector
swage-block
sweargasms
sync edge muting
tape feed motor
termination of the power of attorney
typhoid-paratyphoid A and B and tetanus vaccine
universal-banking
valve integrator
vertebrodidymia
Waibeem
wheel content
white asphyxia