Science Daily (May 1S, 2012) - People who rate themselves as having high emotional intelligence (El) tend to overestimate (高估) their ability to detect deception(欺骗) in others. This is the finding of a paper published in the journal Legal and Criminological Psychology on 18 May 2012.
Professor Stephen Porter. director of the Centre for the Advancement of Psychological Science and Law at University of British Columbia Canada along with colleagues Dr. Leanne Brinke and Alysha Baker used a standard questionnaire to measure the EI of 116 participants.
These participants were then asked to view 20 videos from around the world of people pleading （祈求） for the safe return of a missing family member. In half the videos the person making the plea was responsible for the missing person's disappearance or murder.
The participants were asked to judge whether the pleas were honest or deceptive say how much confidence they had in their judgments, report the clues (线索) they had used to make those judgments and rate their emotional response to each plea.
Professor Porter found that higher EI was associated with overconfidence in assessing the sincerity of the pleas and sympathetic feelings towards people in the videos who turned out to be responsible for the disappearance.
Although EI, in general, was not associated with being better or worse at telling the difference between truths and lies. people with a higher ability to notice and express emotion (a ponent of EI) were not so good at spotting when people were telling lies.
Professor Porter says: Taken together, these findings suggest findings features of emotional intelligence and the decision-making processes they lead to may nave the paradoxical (适得其反的) effect of weakening people's ability to detect deception.
These findings are important because El is a well-accepted concept and is used in a variety of fields, including the workplace
【小题1】Which of the following is true about the study and its findings?A．EI has something to do with telling truths and 1ies.B．The participants were asked to identify liars on the spot.C．The participants had to tell reasons for their judgments.D．Those confident participants all made wrong judgments.【小题2】According to Professor Porter's finding, people with higher EIA．were actually less confidentB．were easy to be cheated for their kindnessC．had sympathy for the missing peopleD．were good at spotting deception【小题3】What does the underlined word they refer to?A．Features of EIB．People with high EfC．The findingsD．The researchers【小题4】Workplace is specially mentioned in the last paragraph to .A．indicate that people with high EI are mostly adultsB．indicate that EI is very important in the workplaceC．warn employers not to trust employees with high EID．warn people with high EI of deception in the workplace【小题5】What is the best title for the passage?A．How to detect deception in our daily life.B．The disadvantages of high emotional intelligence.C．The relationship between one's El and recognition. D．Emotionally intelligent people are less good at spotting liars.C
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(答案→)C
解析：文章大意：自视拥有高情商的人理所当然地认为自己可以轻而易举勘破谎言，而研究发现情商高的人更容易受谎言蒙蔽。
【小题1】C 细节题。根据第四段……report the clues (线索) they had used to make those judgments.研究人员要求参与调研者是根据什么线索来判断的。故C正确。
【小题2】B 细节题。根据文章倒数第三段people with a higher ability to notice and express emotion (a ponent of EI) were not so good at spotting when people were telling lies拥有更高的情感感知和表达能力的人确实不善于发现谎言。故B正确。
【小题3】A 词义推测。根据文章倒数第二段they指代的是features of emotional intelligence。故A正确。
【小题4】D 推理判断题。根据文章研究发现情商高的人更容易受谎言蒙蔽，文章最后是警告高情商的人在工作场所容易受到欺骗，故D正确。
【小题5】D主旨大意题。本文主要描述自视拥有高情商的人理所当然地认为自己可以轻而易举勘破谎言，而研究发现情商高的人更容易受谎言蒙蔽，故D正确。