每日一听 60-second-science 《听写营》

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.

Any successful business person can tell you about the importance of face time.Actually sitting down with clients, co-workers maybe even competitors.But there may be even more to this whole face to face business than meets the eye.Or exactly as much as meets the eye.Because a new study from Tufts University suggests that the success of a cooperation rests squarely on the face of its CEO.The researchers took photos of 50 CEOs from the highest and lowest rank fortune one thousand companies.They showed these pictures to a group of undergrads.They asked the students to rate each face on whether its owners looked competent,dominant, likable, mature or trustworthy .What they found is that the students' impressions tracked with company profits.The more powerful and leaderlike the CEO appeared the more successful the cooperation.Even though the CEOs were all pretty much middle-aged white guys in ties.The study which will appear in the February issue of Psychological Science doesn't see whether profitable companies tend to promote people who look like leaders or whether successful CEOs grow to look the part.Either way looks like company's financial about face can actually be about face.

Thanks for the minute for Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin.

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听1遍后能知道大概意思.短语如下:

meet the eye: visible to the eye.
More than meet the eye: A hidden significance, greater than is first apparent

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44 This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Steve Mirsky.Got a minute?

Remember the Seinfeld where the lunatic in the clown costume asked Kramer if he was still afraid of clowns? And Kramer said yeah. Well, he is not the only one. A study of hospitalized kids in England found that they positively hate clowns, which are often depicted on the walls in children's wards. Researchers from the University of Sheffield took the novel approach of actually interviewing children, rather than relying on adult ideas about what kids like. They spoke to 255 kids between the ages of 4 and 16. And none of them liked clowns.According to the magazine Nursing Standard, one researcher said, we found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them frightening and unknowable. Some representative comments from the kids were the clowns are scary and they're kind of creepy, the clowns. Yeah. On the other hand, kids do like images of The Simpsons, Spongebob Squarepants, characters from Monsters Inc., pictures of local teams and athletes and photos of the local region. The researchers created a guide to kid-friendlier hospital environments at tinyur.com/ypzofx.

Thanks for the minute for Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.

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