Just because someone you know and respect tells you something doesn't make it true.

这也许仅仅是因为你熟悉并尊重的某个人告诉你的事情并没有发生。

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The paper demonstrated the hypothesis through a complicated experiment in which college students were asked to make a judgment about something they could not know for certain -- guessing someone's weight in a photo -- before having their moods swayed either positively, negatively or neutrally by snippets from films intended to provoke either anger, euphoria or no strong feelings.

CNN: When emotion takes over