Science Daily (May 18, 2012) — People who rate themselves as having high emotional intelligence (EI) tend to overestimate their ability to detect deception in others. This is the finding of a paper published in the journal Legal and Criminological Psychology on18 May 2012.
科学日报（2012年5月18日）——自视拥有高情商的人理所当然地认为自己可以轻而易举勘破谎言。这项发现来自于2012年5月18日的《法律和犯罪心理学》杂志上刊载的一篇论文。
Professor Stephen Porter, director of the Centre for the Advancement of Psychological Science and Law at University of British Columbia, Canada, along with colleagues Dr. Leanne ten Brinke and Alysha Baker used a standard questionnaire to measure the EI of 116 participants.
史蒂芬·波特教授，加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学的心理科学和法律地位中心主任，和他的同事琳恩·布林克博士以及艾丽莎·贝克博士用标准问卷测量了116位受调研者的情商。
These participants were then asked to view 20 videos from around the world of people pleading for the safe return of a missing family member. In half the videos the person making the plea was responsible for the missing person's disappearance or murder.
接下来，这些参加调研的人观看了20个视频。视频是关于世界各地久经失散的家庭成员请求返回他们的家庭的，而有一半请求返回的人是冒充的，他们正是导致该家庭成员失踪或被谋杀的罪魁祸首。
The participants were asked to judge whether the pleas were honest or deceptive, say how much confidence they had in their judgements, report the cues they had used to make those judgements and rate their emotional response to each plea.
参加调研者需要判断这些请求返回的人说的是真话或者是谎言，并说明对自己的判断有几成信心，是根据什么线索来判断的，对每一个请求返回的人有怎样的情感波动。
Professor Porter found that higher EI was associated with overconfidence in assessing the sincerity of the pleas and sympathetic feelings towards people in the videos who turned out to be responsible for the disappearance.
波特教授发现，高情商的人判断请求返回者说话的真实性时总是对自己过分自信，而且总是对那些冒充失踪家庭成员的人产生同情心理。
Although EI, in general, was not associated with being better or worse at discriminating between truths and lies, people with a higher ability to perceive and express emotion (a component of EI) were not so good at spotting when people were telling lies.
尽管情商一般而言和擅长辨别真假话与否没多大联系，但拥有更高的情感感知和表达能力的人确实不善于发现谎言。
Professor Porter says: "Taken together, these findings suggest that features of emotional intelligence, and the decision-making processes they lead to, may have the paradoxical effect of impairing people's ability to detect deceit.
波特教授说：“总的来说，这些发现表明，情商在人们的决策过程中有可能对人们判断谎言的能力产生削弱的矛盾影响。”
"This finding is important because EI is a well-accepted concept and is used in a variety of domains, including the workplace.
“这项发现相当重要：因为情商是一种被广泛接受的概念，被应用于包括职场在内的各类领域。”
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