What is the most horrible 'virtue' of man?

Curiosity is an important virtue, but it also makes us act "impulsively" even though we anticipate extremely bad results.

There is no denying that curiosity is the factor that helps people today. We are curious about everything, thereby stimulating the exploration, discovery and the foundation of human development.

However, according to a recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), curiosity can sometimes be harmful to us. More specifically, it makes people make very bad choices, even if they know in advance the results will cause financial losses, uncomfortable feelings, even pain.

Curiosity can sometimes be harmful to us.

According to Bowen Ruan, a member of the research team, "Just as Pandora's case in Greek Mythology could not resist the temptation to open a box full of demons despite being warned in advance. People we have It is not good to check the information even if you know the results in advance. "

To get this result, scientists have done a lot of experiments to test a hypothesis: "Curiosity comes from deep within the human being, in order to re-examine the information, regardless of whether whether that information is harmful or not ".

Curiosity is the factor that helps people get today.

Just like Pandora's case - the girl opened the box full of demons in Greek Mythology despite being warned.

More specifically, they did experiments on 54 students. While waiting, each student was given a generator, in which some were labeled red, green or yellow. The red label indicates that if you click on the pen, the person will have electric shock; Green label is a safe pen, while the yellow label is an unknown pen that causes electric shock.

As a result, the yellow group is the group that presses the most times. However, candidates with a red pen also chose to click, regardless of the electric shock sensation.

Curiosity is an important element of humanity, but it is also a "faulty" virtue.

In the end, experts concluded that curiosity is an important element of humanity, but it is also a "faulty" virtue , when it directs us to choices that bring results. What a nice thing.

The study is published in the journal Psychological Science.