有现金的钱包丢了，更有可能送回来
有现金的钱包丢了，更有可能送回来
People are more likely to return a lost wallet if it contains money — and the more cash, the better.
如果钱包里有钱的话，人们更有可能把它还回来，而且现金越多越好。
That’s the surprising conclusion from researchers who planted more than 17,000 “lost wallets” across 355 cities in 40 countries, and kept track of how often somebody contacted the supposed owners.
这是研究人员得出的惊人结论，他们在40个国家的355个城市安置了1.7万多只“遗失钱包”，并记录下人们联系失主的频率。
The presence of money — the equivalent of about $13 in local currency — boosted this response rate to about 51 percent, versus 40 percent for wallets with no cash. That trend showed up in virtually every nation, although the actual numbers varied.
有现金的钱包——大概13美元的当地货币——将这一联系率提高到51%左右，而没有现金的钱包的联系率为40%。这一趋势几乎出现在每个国家，尽管实际数字各不相同。
Researchers raised the stakes in the US, the United Kingdom and Poland. The response jumped to 72 percent for wallets containing the equivalent of about $94, versus 61 percent for those containing $13. If no money was enclosed, the rate was 46 percent.
研究人员提高了在美国、英国和波兰的风险。对于装有大约94美元的钱包，这一比例上升到72%，而对于装有13美元的钱包，这一比例上升到61%。如果里面没有钱，比例是46%。
How can this be?
怎么会这样呢?
“The evidence suggests that people tend to care about the welfare of others, and they have an aversion to seeing themselves as a thief,” said Alain Cohn of the University of Michigan, one author who reported the results Thursday in the journal Science.
密歇根大学的阿兰·科恩(AlainCohn)说：“有证据表明，人们往往关心他人的损失，他们不愿意把自己看成小偷。”科恩是周四在《科学》(Science)杂志上发表这一研究结果的作者之一。
Another author, Christian Zuend of the University of Zurich, said “it suddenly feels like stealing” when there’s money in the wallet. “And it feels even more like stealing when the money in the wallet increases,” he added. That idea was supported by the results of polls the researchers did in the US, the UK and Poland, he told reporters.
另一位作家、苏黎世大学的克里斯蒂安·祖恩德说，当钱包里有钱的时候，“突然感觉就像在偷东西”。他补充说:“当钱包里的钱增多时，这种感觉更像是偷窃。”他对记者表示，这一观点得到了研究人员在美国、英国和波兰进行的调查结果的支持。
The effect of enclosed money appeared in 38 of the 40 countries, with Mexico and Peru the exceptions.
在40个国家中，有38个国家出现了受钱包现金量的影响，墨西哥和秘鲁例外。
