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（A）【创新预测】
“EEK (哎哟)! A spider! ”
But hold on a minute before you run screaming out of the room—that spider may not be as scary as you think. A study has shown that the more scared you are of spiders, the bigger they can seem to you.
Researchers from Ohio State University, US, gathered together 57 participants who were all extremely afraid of spiders, according to sciencedaily. com. During an eight-week-long experiment, they asked participants to look at five differently sized tarantulas (狼蛛) and documented how the participants reacted to them.
Each tarantula was kept in an open glass box. Participants had to approach the box slowly. Once they were standing next to the box, they were asked to guide the spider around the tank by touching it with a stick, then with a shorter stick. In the meantime, they were asked to rate their fear level on a scale (级别) of 0 to 100.
After every time they met a tarantula, participants would have to estimate its
