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1、1、红色能增强反应的速度和力度Whatlinksspeed,power,andthecolorred?Hint:it'snotasportscar.It'syourmuscles. Anewstudy,publishedinthelatestissueofthejournalEmotion,findsthatwhenhumansseered,theirreactionsbecomebothfasterandmoreforceful.Andpeopleareunawareofthecolor'sintens
2、ifyingeffect.Thefindingsmayhaveapplicationsforsportingandotheractivitiesinwhichabriefburstofstrengthandspeedisneeded,suchasweightlifting.Buttheauthorscautionthatthecolorenergyboostislikelyshort-lived. "Redenhancesourphysicalreactionsbecauseitisseenasadang
3、ercue,"explainscoauthorAndrewElliot,professorofpsychologyattheUniversityofRochesterandaleadresearcherinthefieldofcolorpsychology."Humansflushwhentheyareangryorpreparingforattack,"heexplains."Peopleareacutelyawareofsuchreddeninginothersanditsimplications."
4、 Butthreatisadouble-edgedsword,argueElliotandcoauthorHenkAarts,professorofpsychologyatUtrechtUniversity,intheNetherlands.Alongwithmobilizingextraenergy,"threatalsoevokesworry,taskdistraction,andself-preoccupation,allofwhichhavebeenshowntotaxmentalresources
5、,"theywriteinthepaper.Inearliercolorresearch,exposuretoredhasprovencounterproductiveforskilledmotorandmentaltasks:athletescompetingagainstanopponentwearingredaremorelikelytoloseandstudentsexposedtoredbeforeatestperformworse. "Coloraffectsusinmanywaysdepen
6、dingonthecontext,"explainsElliot,whoseresearchalsohasdocumentedhowmenandwomenareunconsciouslyattractedtotheoppositesexwhentheywearred."Thosecoloreffectsflyunderourawarenessradar,"hesays. Thestudymeasuredthereactionsofstudentsintwoexperiments.Inthefirst,30
7、fourth-through-10thgraderspinchedandheldopenametalclasp.Rightbeforedoingso,theyreadaloudtheirparticipantnumberwrittenineitherredorgraycrayon.Inthesecondexperiment,46undergraduatessqueezedahandgripwiththeirdominanthandashardaspossiblewhentheyreadtheword"squ
8、eeze"onacomputermonitor.Thewordappearedonared,blue,orgraybackground. Inbothscenarios,redsignificantlyincreasedtheforceexerted,withparticipantsintheredconditionsqueezingwithgreatermaximumforcethanthoseinthegr
