The answer quite often is because of other people - something social psychologists have comprehensively shown.

通常我们会听到的答案是：是由于外人造成的(一些社会心理学家笼统的这样解释。)

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According to social psychologists like Robert Cialdini, our instinctive interest in acquiring things that are rare reflects our evolutionary history.

根据像罗伯特•恰尔蒂尼这样的社会心理学家的说法，我们对稀罕货的本能占有欲直接反映了人类的进化史。

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Meanwhile, social psychologists have shown that pressuring people to change their minds often produces precisely the opposite of the desired effect: it makes them more resistant to change.

同时，社会心理学家表示通过施压来改变人的思想通常取得反效果：这使他们更拒绝改变。

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It would make the several thousands social psychologists in this world very happy and proud of their field, if that turned out to be true.

世界上成千上万的社会心理学家,都将十分高兴，并且为自己的学科领域感到自豪，如果这点能成为现实。

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He invited a confederate, a graduate student who was working with him in his lab-- Psychologists--Social psychologists always call people " who are in the employ of the experimenter "confederates."

他邀请了一个助手,和他一起在实验室工作的研究生-,心理学家-社会心理学家总是称,在实验室任职的研究生“助手“

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- She turns to the most salient-- -- and this is the way social psychologists would say it-- -- turns to the most salient object in her immediate social environment-- -- that would be me--and says she's in love.

她转向于最突现的-,社会心理学家会说-,转向于直接社会环境中最突现的实体-,这个实体就是我,并说，她恋爱了。

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Social psychologists have shown for decades how profoundly influenced we are by the smallest of social cues.

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Social psychologists have called money the most emotionally meaningful object in contemporary life.

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