研究：观看高质量电视剧可提高情商

    If you ever feel vaguely guilty about the vast amounts of television you watch, might I suggest you cling to the findings of this study, published last week in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. In it, the authors claim that watching high-quality television dramas — things like Mad Men or The West Wing — can increase your emotional intelligence. That is, watching good TV makes you more empathetic. 如果你曾因看太多电视，心中隐隐感到愧疚，我建议你看完以下研究结果。这是上周发表于《审美、创造及艺术心理学》上的。其中，研究作者称，观看高质量的电视剧——如《广告狂人》或《白宫风云》——可提高你的情商。也就是说，看优质电视节目让你更能体察他人。

    In the paper, the authors describe two experiments that led them to their pro-TV conclusion. In one, they asked about 100 people to first watch either a television drama (Mad Men or The West Wing) or a nonfiction program (How the Universe Works or Shark Week: Jaws Strikes Back). Afterward, all of the participants took a test psychologists often use to measure emotional intelligence: They're shown 36 pairs of eyes and are told to judge the emotion each pair is displaying. The results showed that the people who'd watched the fictionalized shows did better on this test than those who watched the nonfiction ones. 报告中，研究作者描述了两个让他们提出这一结论的实验。其中一个实验中，他们先让100个人观看电视剧（《广告狂人》和《白宫风云》）或非虚构类节目（《宇宙解码》和《鲨鱼周：大白鲨的反击》。然后，全部参与者接受一项心理学家常用于测量情商的测试：研究人员向他们展示36双眼睛，并被要求判断每双眼睛表达的感情。结果显示，在测试中，观看了虚构类节目的人，比看非虚构类节目的人表现更好。

    They tried this again, only switching up the programs (The Good Wife and Lost versus Nova and Through the Wormhole) and adding a control group, too: people who took the eye-reading test without watching any television first. Again, their results showed that the fiction viewers' empathy scores were superior, though the nonfiction viewers' scored higher on average than those who hadn't watched anything beforehand. 他们又试了一次，只播放《傲骨贤妻》、《迷失与新星》和《穿越虫洞》这几部电视剧，并加入控制组。控制组的参与者直接参加眼睛判断测试，不看任何电视节目。他们的结果再次显示，看虚构类节目的参与者情商分更高，而看非虚构类节目的参与者，得分也比不看电视的人高。