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It’s decided: decisive people no more accurate than self-doubters。

Research finds only difference between so-called action-oriented and state-oriented people is confidence

By Nicola Davis

It’s a trait best seen in the eager pub quizzer – a tendency to leap to an answer without a shadow of a doubt.

Now researchers have suggested that while people who have little difficulty making decisions are more confident in their choices, they are no more accurate than those who feel more torn.

Writing in the journal Plos One, researchers revealed how they conducted experiments to explore potential differences between people who tend to be decisive, known as action-oriented people, and those who struggle to commit to a choice, known as state-oriented people.

“What we found is that confidence was the only thing that was different,” said Dr Wojciech Zajkowski, the first author of the research, who is now based at the Riken social decision science laboratory in Japan.


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It’s decided: decisive people no more accurate than self-doubters

38話で日本文化の中の「わび」について、いろいろ考えてみました。この「わび」とセットでよく使われるのが「さび」という言葉です。「さびしい」じゃなくて「さび」。「自転車（じてんしゃ）が雨でさびた～」の「さびる」じゃなくて「さび」。まあ、どちらもいい意味ではありません。価値観（かちかん values）としての「さび」も、見た目（みため appearance )が　よくない場合に使われます。古くて壊（こわ）れそうです。そんなお茶碗（ちゃわん　cups for the tea ceremony )を見て、私が感（かん）じたことをお話します。最後（さいご）にちょっと、元気の出ることも言ってます。
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How to say "on the topic of" or "in regards to" in Chinese with "在"？ I will tell you the answer in the episode.

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In this episode we are going to learn 【Afternoon tea】in Chinese. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practice until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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你有喝下午茶的习惯吗？
nǐ yǒu hē xià wǔ chá de xí guàn ma ？
Do you have the habit of having afternoon tea?
有时候我会点下午茶的外卖。
yǒu shí hòu wǒ huì diǎn xià wǔ chá de wài mài 。
Sometimes I order food delivery for afternoon tea.
我最喜欢的是奶茶、柠檬茶和炸鸡。
wǒ zuì xǐ huān de shì nǎi chá 、 níng méng chá hé zhá jī 。
My favorites are milk tea, lemon tea and fried chicken.
很多年轻人都喜欢喝奶茶。
hěn duō nián qīng rén dōu xǐ huān hē nǎi chá 。
Many young people like to drink milk tea.
下午上班很累的时候，喝一杯奶茶会很快乐。
xià wǔ shàng bān hěn lèi de shí hòu ， hē yì bēi nǎi chá huì hěn kuài lè 。
When you are tired from work in the afternoon, drinking a cup of milk tea will make you happy.
不过奶茶有很多糖，喝多了会变胖哦。
bú guò nǎi chá yǒu hěn duō táng ， hē duō le huì biàn pàng o 。
But milk tea has a lot of sugar, and drinking too much will make you fat.

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