Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that completes the sentence.
Recently a curious experiment was carried
out in Edinburgh
(a)
left 240 wallets in different RESEARCH
parts of the city, leaving them as if their owners
had accidentally dropped them. Each wallet
contained a photograph, either of puppies,
families, babies or an elderly couple.
The (b)
of the experiment was
CONCLUDE
that if you want your wallet to come back to
you, you should keep a photo of a baby in it
since there was a significant (c)
DIFFER
in the responses to the different photos.
An unbelievable 88 per cent of the wallets
with a photo of a baby were returned. The
second-best result was perhaps more surprising,
Fifty-three per cent of the wallets with puppy
photos found their way back, whilst pictures of
families and elderly couples had return rates of
48 per cent and 28 per cent respectively.
Why should the photo of a baby produce such
results? We know that (d)
in ACTIVE
the section of the brain that is associated with
empathy is much more responsive to baby faces
than to adult faces. Perhaps our compassionate
response to small children is really, deep
down, a question of (e)
of PROTECT
the species.
However, there would have to be a different
(f)
for the
EXPLAIN
(g)
of the puppies.
POPULAR
All in all though, the leader of the research
teams, the (h)
Richard
PSYCHOLOGY
Wiseman, was pleasantly surprised to see how
many wallets actually came back. It seems he
underestimated the (i)
of
DECENT
ordinary people.
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