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A confession: I am one of the maybe six people left who have never seen an episode of Game of Thrones. Just existing in the world and on the internet means I have, over the years, indirectly absorbeda rough working knowledge of the show, enough that I can sort of follow along with friends’ conversations about it. 我坦白：我就是大约六人里面那个连一集《权力的游戏》都没看过的人。我是说，只要活在世上而且上个网，过去这些年，我对这部剧的粗略了解也够我跟得上朋友们的对话了。 One study suggested that spoiled stories were actually more enjoyable possibly because they’re easier to process while a later investigation found the precise opposite. 有研究称，剧透的故事情节其实更令人愉悦，大概因为这样的故事更好理解吧，而后又有一项调查的结果与之截然相反。 But the answer may be slightly more nuanced than “spoilers good” or “spoilers bad” — maybe, as a new study in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture suggests, it depends on your personality. “剧透“”到底“是好是坏”，答案或许还有些微妙，《大众媒体文化心理》期刊一项新的研究发现，这取决于你的个性。 The study authors, professors of communication at Albany State University, in Georgia, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, focused on two personality elements: “need for cognition,” or how much a person likes to use their brain for challenging mental activities, and “need for affect,” or the tendency to seek out emotional situations. | 
