人行道上的礼仪：你是"让路党"吗？
Are you a bumbler or a barger？ Experts reveal the 3 types of pedestrian - and how to avoid that awkward 'pavement dance'
Two people are walking towards each other along a narrow pavement – who gives way?
两个人沿着一条狭窄的人行道相向而行,谁给谁让路？
If it is you, you fall into the 25 percent of people who prefer to step aside.
如果是你让路,你就归入了25%喜欢站到一边让路的人群.
Another 25 percent like to pass first, making the other person stand to one side.
还有25%的人喜欢先通过,让对方站在一边让路.
The remaining 50 percent make up the third type of pedestrian and vary their strategy.
其余50%归入第三种类型的行人,他们会改变策略.
The findings come from study in which researchers from the Technical University of Munich paired up 20 strangers and asked them to walk towards each other without colliding and without speaking.
这项研究结果来自慕尼黑工业大学,研究人员将20个陌生人进行配对,要求他们在不发生碰撞也不说话的情况下向对方走去.
The volunteers also filled in personality questionnaires and were measured and weighed.
研究志愿者还填写了性格问卷,并测量了身高和体重.
Interestingly, physical factors such as age, height and gender seemed to have no bearing on pavement etiquette.
有趣的是,年龄、身高和性别等自然因素似乎与人行道上的礼仪没什么关系.
Nor did traits such as extraversion or shyness, the Journal of Experimental Psychology reports.
《实验心理学》杂志报道称,这与外向或害羞等性格特点也没有关系.
In other words, some of us seem to be simply born to barge past.
换言之,我们中的一些人似乎只是天生喜欢横冲直撞地先过去.
