2012年11月16日星期五

Why the bronze medal happier than silver


This strange occurrence - a man ashamed to death because he is only the world's second boxer or paddlers. Except one person he can beat everyone in the world, it does not matter for him; he has decided he is the man to beat; as long as he did not succeed, and then everything else would be meaningless.

In 1892, psychologist William James wrote these words in his basic book "The Principles of Psychology".

James's remarks caused the psychology of well-known views resonate:

Bronze medalist Shannon Bahrke from the United States in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics women's ski awards ceremony, the silver medalist from Canada's Jennifer Heil, gold medalist Hannah Kearney of the United States.

In athletic competition, winning and losing is very intuitive. Gold medalist in the Olympic Games, to win the game; silver medalist the rival; bronze medalist also lower. You might think that Jennifer Heil won silver happier than Shannon Bahrke, why Bahrke won the bronze medal seems happier? Similarly, the American gymnast McKayla Maroney, took this year's London Olympics silver medal, but the look was very satisfied with her own performance.

Psychologists believe that this phenomenon can be explained by counterfactual thinking. That is, people reached their objective the achievement and this comparison.

Silver medalist, is the most obvious counterfactual thinking may focus on handicap to win the gold medal on on the difference of the first and other results. Bronze medalist, they may focus counterfactual thinking in the fourth, to focus on a handicap is not the medals. This clear difference is between winning and shall Prize, there is no comparison between the first and second.

Comparison because of this discord, the bronze medalist, although the results were worse than the silver medalist ourselves more satisfied, of the achievements happier.

Scientific investigation of this problem, scholars interception of the video clips in Barcelona, Spain, 1992 Summer Olympics. Specifically, they burn all awards ceremony video display to see college students, scholars require students to show the happy degrees for each winner scoring anguish out of 10 points, and 10 classified as "joy Ruokuang. "

Average calculation, the results announced, the the silver medalist happy degree 4.8 the bronze medalist 7.1 points. Data analysis proved to win the game, followed by the awards ceremony, the bronze medalist looks better than the silver medalist to be more happy.

In 2006, David Matsumoto, a psychologist at San Francisco State University, and "the Judo World" magazine Bob Willingham collaborative research in the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics judo competition in terms of facial expressions, this form is available. They collected from 84 athletes and 35 countries in three different time data: After the game, when they received the medals, and they stood on the podium.

Overall, they found that 13 of the 14 gold medalists smile immediately after they finish the race, while 18 of the 26 bronze medalist smile. However, the silver medalist in the end of the game, but a no smile. Even more interesting is the silver medalist recorded facial expression covers an expressionless (29%) from the sadness (43%) to dismissive (14%) to the surface. This means that the silver medalist, not just happy than the gold medalist less little fact, Matsumoto and Willingham about: "those people show little expression is discrete, negative emotions."

Overall, the scholars have concluded that: at the end of the game, revealing the true happy mood are more likely to expose the podium to receive medals and station the same happy mood. On the contrary, at the end of the game, there is no showing happy emotions when the awards ceremony will not reveal the same smile, despite the fact that most of the athletes are a smile.

May be a matter of fact, sometimes it is really less is better than more. So I want to say the same as the ergonomic mouse, Handshoe,3M,HE has it’s own characteristics, no matter we are the first one,or the second,may be the third,we are happy to see that the mouse hand patients are away from the wrist pain.
                                                                                            BY Jason g.goldman

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