"Both of us were in the lab when we just saw a spider, and I'm really afraid of them. So I started to scream for her to come and pick it up because she's not afraid of them.”
“我们看到蜘蛛是在实验室里,我真的非常害怕这种生物。因此我就冲她大喊大叫让她把蜘蛛弄走,因为她不害怕。”
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev psychologist Tali Leibovich, talking about herself and a colleague.
班古里昂大学的内盖夫心理学家塔里·勒博维奇谈论着自己和同事的经历。
“And she said, but it's small, how come you're afraid of it?
“我的同事说,蜘蛛那么小的个头,你怎么会害怕呢?
And I said, no it's huge! And she said 'it's small; I said it's huge.
而我说,不,它很大的!她说蜘蛛很小,但我则说很大。
We started arguing, and this is why we started this study. To see who is right."
随后我们开始争论起来。而为了证明孰是孰非,我们开始了这项研究。