Researchers, testing students using a computer game, also found gossip played an important role when people make decisions, said Ralf Sommerfeld, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, who led the study.

• 据德国迈克斯?普兰克研究所负责人、进化生物学家拉尔夫?索姆费尔德介绍，研究人员借助一个电脑游戏对学生们进行测试。结果发现，流言在人们做决定的过程中起了重要作用。