We often describe personality or behavior with taste-related terms.

人们总喜欢用与“味道”相关的词语来描述一个的个性或者行为。

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We often describe personality or behavior with taste-related terms. Think of someone who's bitter, or sour or maybe even a little picante.

我们常常用表示味道的词来形容人的性格与行为，比如，我们会说某人很苦闷，也会用尖酸、泼辣等词来描述别人。

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We often describe personality or behavior with taste-related terms. Think of someone who's bitter, or sour or maybe even a little picante. But do our tastes in food really reflect who we are?

我们常常用表示味道的词来形容人的性格与行为，比如，我们会说某人很苦闷，也会用尖酸、泼辣等词来描述别人。那么，食物的味道真的可以反应出我们是什么样的人吗？

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Campaigners are targeting what many say is an increasingly common practice - deploying the language of clinical diagnosis to describe everyday personality traits.

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For example, one study by Westby and Dawson found that when teachers were asked to describe their favorite students, the personality traits cited correlated negatively with personality traits associated with creative students, such as being impulsive, emotional, individualistic, and having a preference to be alone when creating something new.

FORBES: Do We Value People Who "Think Different"? In Schools: Mostly Not.

Just as important, the different humans who knew a particular animal agreed about its personality to a degree similar to that found when several people describe a human friend they have in common.

ECONOMIST: Animal behaviour