2017英語專業八級作文話題：大學所學專業透露你的性格

　　2016專八改革后專八作文類型更趨于題材作文，不僅需要考生對詞匯及語法的熟悉運用更是對考生思維拓展的一項考察，新東方在線英語專八頻道整理了一系列2017英語專業八級作文話題供考生們參考練習。

　　What did you study at university?

　　If it was something along the lines of law or business, you might want to look away now.

　　That's because according to new research, which has found a link between our university subjects and our personalities, you have selfish, uncooperative tendencies and are not very in touch with your feelings.

　　On the plus side, you're probably the life and soul of a party, the findings suggest.

　　Researchers analysed data from more than 13,000 university students who were involved in 12 separate studies.

　　From this, they discovered a correlation between the 'Big Five' major personality traits and the subjects they were enrolled on.

　　For example, those studying law, economics, political science and medicine tended to be much more extroverted than those taking other subjects, the study found.

　　But when it came to 'agreeableness' - the tendency towards being helpful, generous and considerate - the lawyers scored particularly low, as did business and economics students.

　　Arts and humanities students, as well as those studying psychology and politics scored highly for openness, meaning they were curious, imaginative and in touch with their inner feelings.

　　While economists, engineers, lawyers and scientists scored comparatively low.

　　However, the arts and humanities students also tended to be less conscientiousness and more neurotic, typically exhibiting signs of anxiety and moodiness.

　　Psychology students were not far behind arts and humanities students for these traits.

　　Study author Anna Vedel, from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, said she was surprised by the magnitude of the results.

　　'The effect sizes show that the differences found are not trivial, far from,' she said.

　　'On the more humorous side they do confirm our more or less prejudicial stereotypes of the disturbed psychologist, the withdrawn natural scientist, the cynical economist.'

　　And she said that the findings could help those school pupils who currently have no idea what to study at university, as well as helping academics to plan their lectures.

　　'I'm not arguing that these results should play a major role in either guidance or selection, but it might provide some inspiration for students that are in doubt about study choices and want to make a choice based on more than abilities, for example,' said Dr Vedel.

　　'Or teachers might better understand their student population and may be able to tailor their structure to it.'

　　你在大學學習的是什么專業?

　　如果是和法律或者金融相關的專業，你大概不太想繼續看下去。

　　因為最新研究顯示，專業與我們的個性之間具有一定的聯系。學習法律或者金融的你可能有自私不合作的傾向，而且難有感同身受的體會。

　　但從積極的一方面說，你又可能是社交場合的活躍分子。

　　研究人員對來自12個不同專業的13000多名大學生進行了研究分析。

　　通過分析他們發現，大五類人格特征(注：嚴謹性、外向性、開放性、宜人性與神經質人格特質)與學生所學的專業之間存在一定聯系。

　　舉例來說，研究發現，學習法律、經濟、政治學和醫學的學生要比學習其他學科的學生性格更加外向。

　　但從樂于助人和寬容友善的宜人性特質方面來看，學習法律、商務和經濟的學生的表現不盡人意。

　　藝術學與人文學的學生，同那些學習心理學和政治學的學生一樣，在開放性方面得分較高。這意味著他們好奇心強、想象豐富，并且善于表達自我情感。

　　相比之下，學習經濟、工程、法律和科學的學生在開放性上得分較低。

　　然而，藝術學與人文學的學生嚴謹性低，神經質特性明顯，這尤其體現在他們的焦慮不安與喜怒無常上。

　　心理學學生在這些特質上和他們差不多。

　　此項研究的作者安娜·韋德爾來自丹麥奧爾胡斯大學，她表示對這次的研究發現感到吃驚。

　　她表示：“通過效應量的計算我們發現，不同專業的特質差異是十分明顯的。”

　　“有趣的是，這些不同也證實了我們對不同專業那些或多或少的偏見，比如精神錯亂的心理學家、沉默寡言的自然科學家以及見利忘義的經濟學家。”

　　但同時她也認為這次的研究發現可以幫助那些對專業拿不定主意的學生做出選擇，也可以幫助老師合理安排自己的課程。

　　“我并不是說這個研究結果對于指導和選擇有多么重要，但它對于有專業選擇困難癥，或者不想只根據能力來選擇專業的學生來說，確實有著啟發的作用。”韋德爾博士表示。

　　“老師也可以有更好的機會來了解學生并因材施教。”

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