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Esteban Pazuj was once a carpenter in a small village. But he is now an Indian plantation worker. His way of life has changed. Esteban used to make tables and chairs from pine wood, which he would sell at a market twelve miles away. Then he would buy more wood and a little food from the money he made. But there was still not enough money. So he and his family worked for a few weeks each year on a large coffee plantation to earn more. Later, Esteban heard about a new job on a banana plantation. There he could make even more, have a free house, buy food cheaply at the plantation store, and grow food for himself if he wished. The Pazuj family now has a good house with a kitchen and electric lights. And the children go to school for the first time. However, he is not completely happy. Esteban and his family do not like the hot, wet climate where they now live. They miss the cool, dry highlands of their old home. They miss their friends, too. Besides, they do not know their neighbors, who do not speak the Pazujs' Indian language. Where they live now does not feel like home to the Pazuj family. Esteban knows that his old life is gone forever. He has become a part of the modern world with its complicated ways. He wants to earn more money to make life easier. But he realizes he probably will never earn more than he does now because he has no education. His children are going to school. Perhaps they will learn skills. They might learn to repair a truck or do office work. Sometimes, Esteban thinks if life and the future can be so different for Indian children, perhaps other things might change, too.【缺少答案,请补充】
How Power Affects Complicated Decision Making ① Does power affect the way people make complicated decisions? A study has been done to answer this question. The findings are reported in the December issue of Psychological Science. ② Researchers stimulated feelings of powerlessness or power in a group of volunteers. Some volunteers were asked to recall a situation when other people had power over them. Meanwhile, other volunteers recalled a situation when they had power over other people. Then they were required to solve a complicated problem. They had to pick the best of four cars, each of which had twelve different characteristics. Both the "powerful" and the "powerless" volunteers made their choice of the cars. But some spent time consciously thinking about the problem, while others were distracted with a word puzzle. ③ Previous research has shown that most people can solve complicated problems better if they engage in unconscious thinking. This is because unconscious thinkers are able to think abstractly. They can also quickly get to the point of the problem. They do not spend a lot of time focusing on unimportant details of the problem. ④ The results showed that the "powerless" volunteers performed better when they unconsciously thought about the problem. More interestingly, the "powerful" volunteers performed equally well regardless of whether they were in the conscious thinking or unconscious thinking group. ⑤ These findings show that powerful people's conscious consideration is very much like the unconscious processing of the rest of us. It is more abstract and better when it comes to complicated decisions.【缺少答案,请补充】
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