時差N小時:關(guān)于"明星崇拜"的新發(fā)現(xiàn)

Y: What would you say your attitude towardscelebrities, Don?

D: Do you mean whether I like them?

Y: I mean are you obsessed? Do you spend hourson the Internet trying to find out what their favoritenail polish color is and whether they believe inhypnosis?

D: I'm fond of The BeeGees, but I don't think they wear nail polish and I could care less whatthey think about hypnosis.

Y: Okay, do you believe in a just world, that life is fair?

D: I can't pick up a newspaper without reading evidence that life is not only unfair, but oftencruel.

Y: Good. What I mean is that psychologists have found that people who believe in a justworld are more likely to worship celebrities, whereas people more critical of society are lesslikely to obsess over a celebrity. People who strongly believe in a just world believe that life isfair, that good things happen to good people and bad things to bad people. People who believein a just world are expressing acceptance of society and its institutions. Since the celebritysystem is one of these institutions researchers suggest that it makes sense that those believingin a just world would be satisfied with how celebrities are made and thus more likely to admireand even obsess over them. Vice versa, people who do not believe in a fair world might resistworshipping celebrities, and in fact question or criticize the system that produces them anddecides who gets to be a celebrity.

D: Don't get me started.

【生詞注釋】

celebrity n. 名聲; 名人

obsessed adj. 心神不寧的

nail polish 指甲油

hypnosis n. 催眠

a just world 世界是公平的

evidence n. 證據(jù)

psychologist n. 心理學(xué)者

worship v. 崇拜, 尊敬

institution n. 制度

vice versa a. 反過來的(也是一樣的)

Y: Don,你對名人的態(tài)度是什么樣的?

D: 你是說我是否喜歡名人?

Y: 我是說你是否會心神不寧?你會在網(wǎng)上花很多時間來尋找名人們最愛得指甲油顏色以及名人們是否相信催眠嗎?

D: 我很喜歡The BeeGees，但是我認(rèn)為他們會用指甲油，而且我也不怎么關(guān)心他們對催眠怎么想。

Y: 你相信生活是平等的嗎?

D: 我拿起報紙時難免會讀到生活不僅是不公平的，而且通常很殘酷

Y: 好的，我的意思是心理學(xué)家已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)相信世界公平的人們更有可能崇拜名人，人們越譴責(zé)社會他們崇拜名人的可能性越小。堅信世界公平的人們會相信生活是平等的，好人會有好報，壞人會受到懲罰。相信世界公平的人們表現(xiàn)更容易接受社會并接受制度。因為名人體系是制度研究者們建議的那種體系，它會使相信世界公平的人們對名人的產(chǎn)生很滿意，從而更有可能羨慕并對他們著迷。反過來的(也是一樣的)，不相信世界公平得人們可能會抵制崇拜名人，會責(zé)問并譴責(zé)造就名人和決定誰將成為名人的系統(tǒng)

D: 別從我這兒開始。