西安大略大学的心理学家罗德马丁说：“事实上，我们对喜剧天才的崇拜是相对较新且没有根基的。”

In fact our admiration for the comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario.

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该大学的家庭与个人关系实验室的心理学家们研究了从1995年至2005年间40部票房价值最高的40部浪漫喜剧影片。

Psychologists at the family and personal relationships laboratory at the university studied 40 top box office hits between 1995 and 2005.

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这听起来不像是喜剧演员和魔术师的表演，倒像是位心理学教授的分析。 Teller为大家描述了：一个优秀的魔术师知道利用人们总是想寻找模式的心理倾向，又是怎么在这些模式并不存在的情况下“欺骗”观众一把的。

Sounding more like a professor than a comedian and magician, Teller described how a good conjuror exploits the human compulsion to find patterns, and to impose them when they aren’t really there.

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Let me show you a quick excerpt from a video of one of my favorite psychologists, actually the commedian, Seinfeld.

我来放一段我最喜爱的心理学家之一的录影，其实是喜剧演员宋飞。

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