如何用形狀來推測你的容忍度大綱

How shapes can predict your tolerance of ‘deviancy’

如何用形狀來推測你的容忍度

Here’s a simple question that can tell us an awful lot about you. Is this a circle?

這是一個簡單的問題，卻可以讓我們瞭解你很多信息。這是一個圓嗎？

If you said: “Yeah, sure, close enough,” then you are probably politically liberal, and strongly support the idea of government aid for the homeless and unemployed. You are also likely to support same-sex marriage and legalisation of marijuana for recreational use.

如果你說：“是的，當然了，非常接近，”那麼你很可能在政治上是個自由主義者，並且強烈支持政府救助無家可歸者以及失業者。你還很可能支持同性戀婚姻以及大麻的娛樂消費立法。

If you said: “No, of course not,” then you are probably politically conservative, and strongly support the idea of protecting the rights of business owners and having a strong military. You are likely to take a particularly dim view of illegal immigration, and would come down strongly on even relatively low-level crime, such as drug use and prostitution.

如果你說：“不，當然不是了，”那麼你很可能在政治上很保守，強烈支持保護企業所有者的權利，並支持擁有強大的軍事實力。你很可能對於非法移民持有模糊的態度，並且強烈反對甚至相對低水平的犯罪，例如毒品和賣淫。

Although this sounds like some sort of satire, these were – broadly speaking – the findings of a recent study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. People who are tolerant of deviance from the norm when judging a circle (or triangle, square, rectangle or ellipse) are tolerant of deviant or otherwise marginalised groups in society. In fact, they’re not just tolerant of these groups, they actively want to help them. So if you meet someone new and don’t know how to broach the subject of their political orientation, just show them a “circle”.

總的來看，儘管這聽起來像是嘲諷，這其實是發佈在人格與社會心理學雜誌上的一篇最新的研究。那些可以容忍一個圓（或三角形，方形，矩形或橢圓）偏離常態的人可以容忍不正常的人或者社會上邊緣的人羣。事實上，他們不僅可以容忍這些人羣，他們還很積極地想要幫助他們。所以如果你遇到了不認識的人並且不知道如何確定他們的政治傾向，那就給他們看一個“圓”。

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