Each group needed a justification for saying how interesting the task was, but they each had a justification.

每一组都需要一个理由来说明,这个任务有多有趣，但他们各自有自己的理由。

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And that group did much better on the learning task than the control group, because they were put into a positive mood.

第二组,在学习任务上比对照组表现更好，因为他们被置于积极情绪。

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It turns out that the group that had--were paid a dollar rated the task as much more fun than the group given twenty dollars.

结果发现，拿一美元的那组对这个任务的评价,要比拿20美元的那组高得多。

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So, the dollar group rated a task as more fun than the twenty dollar group.

比起20美元那组，一美元认为任务更好玩。

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You might have predicted it the other way around, the twenty dollars, "wow, well, twenty dollars, I must have enjoyed it because I got twenty dollars," but in fact, the logic here is the people with twenty dollars when asked, "What do you think of the task?" could say, "It was boring. I did it for twenty dollars."

你们猜想的结果可能跟这个相反，拿20美元的那组，”20美元，我当然很喜欢这个任务“,”因为我拿到20美元“,但事实是，当问及20美元那一组时，”你喜欢这个任务吗/“,”很无聊，我为了20美元才做的“

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