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  3. "The love of money", St Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy, "is the root of all evil."【F1】"All" may be putting it a bit

"The love of money", St Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy, "is the root of all evil."【F1】"All" may be putting it a bit

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问题     "The love of money", St Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy, "is the root of all evil."【F1】"All" may be putting it a bit strongly, but dozens of psychological studies have indeed shown that people primed to think about money before an experimentare more likely to lie, cheat and steal during the course of that experiment.
    Francesca Gino and Cassie Mogilner asked a group of volunteers to do a series of what appeared to be aptitude tests.【F2】In the first test they were asked to make, within three minutes, as many coherent sentences as they could out of a set of words they had been presented with. What they were not told was that each of them had been assigned to one of three groups. Some volunteers’ word sets were seeded with ones associated with money, such as "dollars", "financing" and "spend". Some were seeded with words associated with time (eg, "clock", "hours", "moment"). And some were seeded with neither. Thus unknowingly primed, the volunteers were ready for the second test.
    This was mathematical. 【F3】They were given a sheet of paper with 20 matrices which each contained 12 numbers, two of which added up to ten (for example, 3.81 and 6.19). They had to write down, on a separate answer sheet, how many of these pairs they could manage to find in five minutes. They were also given a packet of money and told they could reward themselves with a dollar for each pair they discovered.
    Crucially, they were not asked to show their workings on the answer sheets—and the matrix sheets, on which those workings might have appeared, carried no identifier and were ostentatiously discarded once the test was done. Nevertheless, by hiding an identification code in a sample matrix on the answer sheet, Dr. Gino and Dr. Mogilner knew which matrix sheet each candidate had been given and thus who had cheated and who had not 【F4】They found that 88% of those who had been primed with money-related words in the first test cheated, as did 67% of those given neutral words. Of those primed with time-related words, though, only 42% cheated.
    Nor, despite St Paul’s aphorism, was the lure of lucre during the experiment (as opposed to the effect of thinking about it as a result of being primed) necessary as a corrupting influence. 【F5】A similar trial on different participants showed that presenting the matrix as a test of intelligence also caused those primed with the idea of money to cheat more than those primed with the idea of time— though, intriguingly, that did not apply if the matrix was presented as a test of personality.
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答案在另一相似的实验中(参与者不同)，参与者被告知自己是在做智力测验，最后那些预先接触金钱观念比预先接触时间观念的人更易作弊——有趣的是，如果只是视为人格测验，结果却完全不同。
解析 (1)定语primed with the idea of money译为“预先接触金钱观念的”。
(2)翻译时将if the matrix was presented as a test of personality前置，译为“如果只是视为人格测验”。
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