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Lady Gaga's fake finger now and justin timberlake's partly even french toast have fetched big box auction1 because the seemingly worthless items once belonged to a celebrity2. Now a study found that the price depend on how much contact the celebrity had with an item and whether they heroes and vallence.The research is in the precedings of national academy of sciences. Data from auctions3 will reveal that people will spend more on items like jewelry4 rather than furniture, at least for a while, folks like JFK or JKO. Items from a wide of celebri.......The finding suggests that people's desire for a celebrity's membria stems from the belief what's called Contagion5, the idea that a person's essence can be transfered through the object they touched.A follow up experiment further supports the Contagion idea. Participants said they would pay substantially less for a celebrity's sterylizing sweater if it had been sterylized. But sterylization actually increased the amount of subjects who would pay for the sweaters owned by a dislike -celebrity. Gives a whole new meaning to money laundering6.
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n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖 | |
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n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望 | |
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n.拍卖,拍卖方式( auction的名词复数 ) | |
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4 jewelry | |
n.(jewllery)(总称)珠宝 | |
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n.(通过接触的疾病)传染;蔓延 | |
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6 laundering | |
n.洗涤(衣等),洗烫(衣等);洗(钱)v.洗(衣服等),洗烫(衣服等)( launder的现在分词 );洗(黑钱)(把非法收入改头换面,变为貌似合法的收入) | |
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