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본 파일은 GeeSeek.com의 지식상품으로 financially for your efforts. You may believe that the
www.geeseek.com에서 회원가입 후 message they are getting is that you work hard because
유/무료로 다운로드 가능합니다. of your passion for your work. But they may actually be
getting the message that you work hard because money is
important to you. Clearly, two very different values would
글의 요지, 주제문/제목 찾기 유형 arise depending on how they interpret your messages. This
is why you should not only make sure you're living a life
that expresses your values but also periodically ask
1. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은?1) [25강 – Gateway]
yourself whether your actions clearly express the values or
Creativity is commonly defined as the production of ideas whether your children could misinterpret them. Also, ask
that are both novel (original, new) and useful (appropriate, your children what value messages they are getting from
feasible). Ideas that are original but not useful are irrelevant, you. For example, you can ask them, "Why do you think
and ideas that are useful but not original are unremarkable. Daddy [or Mommy] works so hard?"
While this definition is widely used in research, an
important aspect of creativity is often ignored: Generating
creative ideas rarely is the final goal. Rather, to successfully
① Children naturally understand the values their parents
solve problems or innovate requires one or a few good
want to teach them.
ideas that really work, and work better than previous
② Parents should work less so their children don’t
approaches. This requires that people evaluate the products
misunderstand them.
of their own or each other's imagination, and choose those
③ It's important for parents to check whether their actions
ideas that seem promising enough to develop further, and
are clearly communicating their values to their children.
abandon those that are unlikely to be successful. Thus,
④ Financial success is the most effective way to teach
being creative does not stop with idea generation. In fact,
children about hard work.
the ability to generate creative ideas is essentially useless if
⑤ Children are more influenced by what their teachers
these ideas subsequently die a silent death.
say than by what their parents do.

① Creativity is solely about generating as many ideas as

possible.
② Originality is more important than usefulness in
creative thinking.
③ Creative ideas must be completely novel to be
considered valuable.
④ The process of creativity includes both idea generation
and critical evaluation. 3. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은? 3) [25강 2번]
⑤ Most people cannot come up with creative ideas due Having a rich store of knowledge in an area is the basis
to lack of imagination. for creativity, but something more is needed. For many
problems, that "something more" is the ability to see
things in a new way ─ restructuring the problem, which
leads to a sudden insight. Often this happens when a
person has struggled with a problem or project and then
sets it aside for a while. Some psychologists believe that
time away allows for incubation, a kind of unconscious
working through the problem. Actually, it is more complex
than that. Incubation is more helpful when a longer
2. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은? 2) [25강 1번] preparation period precedes the individual's setting the
problem aside. Leaving the problem for a time probably
Conveying values to your children is complicated by the interrupts strict ways of thinking so you can restructure
fact that what you think you are teaching them is not your view of the situation and think more differently.
always what they are learning from you. This disconnect Creativity requires extensive knowledge, flexibility, and the
can occur because your actions may not always be clear continual reorganizing of ideas as well as motivation and
to your children. For example, your children may see you persistence.
working hard in your career and being well rewarded

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① Creativity is only possible after taking a long break

from a problem.
② Extensive knowledge alone is sufficient to produce 5. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은? 5) [26강 Gateway]
creative ideas.
③ Creativity involves not just knowledge but also the Human speech differs from the cries of other species in
ability to restructure problems and think flexibly. many ways. One very important distinction is that all other
④ People are most creative when they avoid working animals use one call for one message as the general
too hard on problems. principle of communication. This means that the number
⑤ Insight occurs randomly and cannot be explained by of possible messages is very restricted. If a new message
psychological theories. is to be included in the system, a new sound has to be
introduced, too. After the first few tens of sounds, it
becomes difficult to invent new distinctive sounds, and
also to remember them for the next time they are
needed. Human speech builds on the principle of
combining a restricted number of sounds into an unlimited
4. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은? 4) [25강 3번] number of messages. In a typical human language, there
are something like thirty or forty distinctive speech sounds.
Difficulties may arise for students when the beliefs of the These sounds can be combined into chains to form a
home and school differ. When an individual's behaviour is literally unlimited number of words. Even a small child,
interpreted from a cultural perspective that is different who can communicate by only one word at a time, uses a
from that of the individual in question, misunderstandings system for communication that is infinitely superior to any
and conflict can result. Malcolm and his colleagues system utilized by any other animal.
described a number of ways in which this can happen for
Aboriginal students in mainstream Australian classrooms. In
Western Anglo culture, looking people in the eye when ① Animals have more complex communication systems
you speak to them is a mark of respect, and shows you than humans.
are attending to them. However, in many other cultures, ② Human speech allows unlimited expression through
including some Aboriginal and Asian groups, this would be the combination of a limited number of sounds.
a mark of disrespect ─ particularly if shown by a younger ③ Most animals can create new sounds to express new
person to someone in a position of authority. Without this ideas.
understanding, teachers might assume that students from ④ Small children cannot communicate as effectively as
cultures that do not favour eye contact are not listening animals.
or are not interested. Similarly, teachers who insist on eye ⑤ Human language uses hundreds of unique sounds to
contact without explaining that it denotes respect in their form messages.
culture risk some students and parents assuming that
those teachers do not want to be respected.

① Teachers should enforce the use of eye contact in all

cultural settings.
6. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은? 6) [26강 1번]
② Students from Aboriginal backgrounds often refuse to
follow classroom rules. You may have noticed that language has a variety of
③ Cultural misunderstandings between home and school actual and potential uses. Marvel for just a moment at the
values can lead to conflict and misinterpretation. flexibility, utility, and power of language as a set of tools.
④ Eye contact is universally recognized as a sign of Language can be used to describe the world or some part
respect in schools. of it, pose problems, suggest solutions, issue orders, make
⑤ Parents must teach their children to adapt to Western agreements, tell stories, tell jokes, sing songs, exchange
classroom expectations. greetings, buy things, sell things, make friends, insult
enemies, and so on. Can language be said to serve any
specific single, essential function amid all this variety?
Remember that humans are social animals. Our chances of
survival and of flourishing are greatly enhanced by

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association with others of our kind. We do much better in

groups than as individuals. This places a high premium on
cooperation and coordination with others. Thus the 8. 다음 글의 제목으로 가장 적절한 것은? 8) [26강 3번]
essential function, as well as the functional essence, of
language would seem to be communication. What exactly It is fascinating to watch an artist striving to achieve the
is communication? Communication is what we do to right balance, but if we were to ask him why he did this or
achieve common understanding ─ essential to cooperation changed that, he might not be able to tell us. He does not
and coordination ─ among two or more sentient beings. follow any fixed rules. He just feels his way. It is true that
some artists or critics in certain periods have tried to
formulate laws of their art; but it always turned out that
poor artists did not achieve anything when trying to apply
① Language is primarily used to tell stories and jokes. these laws, while great masters could break them and yet
② Language has many uses, but its essential function is to achieve a new kind of harmony no one had thought of
enable communication for cooperation and coordination. before. When the great English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds
③ Language is important mainly for buying and selling explained to his students in the Royal Academy that blue
things in society. should not be put into the foreground of paintings but
④ Human survival depends more on individual effort should be reserved for the distant backgrounds, for the
than group interaction. fading hills on the horizon, his rival Thomas Gainsborough
⑤ The definition of communication changes depending ─ so the story goes ─ wanted to prove that such
on the type of language used. academic rules are usually nonsense. He painted the famous
'Blue Boy,' whose blue costume, in the central foreground
of the picture, stands out triumphantly against the warm
brown of the background.

7. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은? 7) [26강 2번]

① How to Follow Rules in Art
Texts must be interpreted, that is, analyzed for both
② The Science of Color Theory in Painting
explicit and implicit meanings. Since it is impossible to
③ Why Academic Art Education Always Succeeds
know with any certainty what an author intends, one
alternative is to discount the intentions of the author and ④ The Power of Instinct and Innovation in Art
concentrate on whatever meaning the text generates. As D. ⑤ The Decline of Traditional Art Forms
H. Lawrence famously declared, "Never trust the teller, trust
the tale." New Criticism in the twentieth century would
reject the notion that deciphering an author's intention is a
central goal of literature. Literature, they argued, is not a
secret message planted by the author to be decoded but a
dynamic field of multiple meanings, generated because of,
despite, and indeed regardless of the author. In this model,
literature is a textual world that the author has set in
motion but does not control; the reader controls the text 9. 다음 글의 제목으로 가장 적절한 것은? 9) [27강 Gateway]
through interpretation.
Truth is essential for progress and the development of
knowledge, as it serves as the foundation upon which
① An author's personal life must be studied to understand reliable and accurate understanding is built. However, one
a literary text. of the greatest threats to the accumulation of knowledge
② The reader's interpretation of a text is more important can now be found on social media platforms. As social
than the author's intention. media becomes a primary source of information for millions,
③ New Criticism emphasizes that literature has only one its unregulated nature allows misinformation to spread
fixed meaning. rapidly. Social media users may unknowingly participate in
④ Literature is a secret message that must be decoded creating and circulating misinformation, which can influence
by the reader. elections, cause violence, and create widespread panic, as
⑤ All texts should be interpreted literally to avoid seen in various global incidents. As creators and consumers,
confusion. it is our responsibility to take on a greater role in the

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enhancement of fact-checking protocols in order to ensure

accuracy. It is critical that participants safeguard the 11. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은? 11) [27강 2번]
reliability of information, supporting a more informed and
Although computer scientists and mathematicians tend to
rational public community.
be talented at computer science and math, as a group
they tend not to be sensitive to the nuances of language.
If something needs a name, they don't obsess over
picking the perfect name that has ideal connotations and
① The Benefits of Social Media in Education Latin roots and what have you. They just pick a name,
② Why Truth No Longer Matters in Modern Society usually one that has to do with something they like.
③ The Role of Truth and the Danger of Misinformation Python, the programming language, is named after Monty
on Social Media Python the comedy troupe (Monty Python is the
④ How to Win Arguments Online ur-comedy text in computer science, like Star Wars is the
⑤ Social Media Should Be Banned Worldwide ur-narrative text.) Django, a web framework, is named after
Django Reinhardt, the jazz guitarist, a favorite of the
Django framework's inventor. Java, the programming
language, is named after coffee. JavaScript, an unrelated
language, was invented around the same time as Java and
is also (unfortunately) named after coffee.

① Computer scientists always choose programming

10. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은? 10) [27강 1번] language names with Latin roots and deep meanings.
In media, the echo chamber effect arises in a situation ② Programming languages are usually named after
where information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or famous scientists or mathematicians.
reinforced by transmission and repetition inside an ③ Computer scientists often pick programming language names
"enclosed" system, often drowning out different or based on personal interests rather than linguistic nuance.
competing views. Big data sources utilising web data are ④ All programming languages are named after animals
particularly prone to this effect. People using web forums or plants.
and communities often surround themselves with voices ⑤ Java and JavaScript are the same programming
language with similar purposes.
that echo similar opinions to their own. Diverging opinions
are ignored, marginalised or dismissed as 'trolls.' This has
the effect of distorting what is then considered to be the
general consensus. This theory of cognitive dissonance,
how humans strive for internal consistency, is
well-established. When we experience inconsistency
(dissonance), we become psychologically distressed and will
try to avoid and/or reduce the dissonance and achieve
12. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은? 12) [27강 3번]

consonance. The implications for big data are clear ─ web In communications services, when "picture phones" were
data-sets may be heavily biased and require significant introduced in 1963 at the New York World's Fair, an
interpretation before conclusions can be drawn. American telecom giant, which had been at the forefront
of designing and introducing the technology, estimated
that there would be 10 million such phones in use in
① Web forums are the best places to collect unbiased America by 1980. But the real number in that year was
opinions. closer to zero. Thirty years later, with smartphones,
② Big data guarantees objective and accurate conclusions. laptops, tablets, and camera-equipped desktop computers,
③ The echo chamber effect helps people feel psychologically personal video penetration was at the other extreme, at
safe online. 230 million. Similarly, at one time mobile phones
④ Online communities reinforce users’ beliefs, causing bias connected by satellites were widely expected by experts to
in big data.
be the next Big Thing. In 1998, The Wall Street Journal
⑤ Trolls are the main reason online communication becomes
enthusiastically claimed that "the consensus forecast by
distorted.
media analysts is of 30 million satellite phone subscribers

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by 2006." The reality, however, was vastly more modest 14. 다음 글의 제목으로 가장 적절한 것은? 14) [28강 1번]
than these experts predicted. Such satellite phones, aside
By focusing on just one aspect of our lives, we are failing
from some subsidized national security applications, are
to consider all the other things that contribute to
mostly used as rental units on adventure travel, and even
happiness. For example, if you ask students two questions,
that niche has been rapidly contested by alternatives.
'How happy are you with your life in general?' followed by
'How many dates did you have last month?', there is
absolutely no relationship between the answers. However, if
① Early predictions about new communication technologies you reverse the order of the questions and start with the
often overestimate their adoption. dating question, this produces a strong relationship. Those
② Satellite phones became the most popular communication with more dates rate themselves as happier with their lives
devices by 2006. compared with those who went on fewer dates. By focusing
③ Smartphones were invented in 1963 at the New York (and anchoring) the respondent to a measure of popularity,
World's Fair. you are influencing their subsequent evaluation of
④ Mobile phones connected by satellites quickly replaced well-being. The same effect can be found when attention is
all other communication methods. first called to a respondent's marriage or their health. The
⑤ The Wall Street Journal accurately predicted the future reason happiness levels change is that people do not know
of video communication. how happy they are in general and so they become
susceptible to the focusing of attention on different aspects
of their life. When people consider the impact of any single
factor on their happiness, they are inclined to exaggerate its
importance.

13. 다음 글의 제목으로 가장 적절한 것은?13) [28강 Gateway]

Internalization depends on supports for autonomy. Contexts

that use controlling strategies such as salient rewards and
① The Impact of Dating on Happiness
punishments or evaluative, self-esteem-hooking pressures are
② How Focusing Attention Affects Self-Reported Well-Being
least likely to lead people to value activities as their own.
③ The Relationship Between Marriage and Happiness
This is not to say that controls don't work to produce
behavior ─ decades of operant psychology prove that they ④ Measuring Popularity in Student Life
can. It is rather that the more salient the external control ⑤ The Importance of Health in Overall Happiness
over a person's behavior, the more the person is likely to
be merely externally regulated or introjected in his or her
actions. Consequently, the person does not develop a value
or investment in the behaviors, but instead remains
dependent on external controls. Thus, parents who reward,
force, or cajole their child to do homework are more likely 15. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은?15) [28강 2번]
to have a child who does so only when rewarded, cajoled,
or forced. The salience of external controls undermines the Women and men differ in whether they describe
acquisition of self-responsibility. Alternatively, parents who themselves as empathic. If you have empathy, you identify
supply reasons, show an emotional understanding of with others and imagine what it must be like to walk in
difficulties overcoming problems, and use a minimum of their shoes. You celebrate with those who are happy and
external incentives are more likely to cultivate a sense of cry with those who cry. Physiological measures of empathy,
willingness and value for work in their child. such as heart rate while seeing another's distress, reveal a
much smaller gender gap than is found in self-reports in
surveys. Nevertheless, females are more likely to express
① The Role of External Rewards in Learning empathy ─ to cry and to report distress when observing
② How Autonomy Support Influences Internal Motivation someone in distress. Ann Kring and Albert Gordon observed
③ The Impact of Punishment on Academic Performance this gender difference in videotapes of men and women
students watching film clips that were sad (children with a
④ Strategies for Enforcing Homework Completion
dying parent), happy (slapstick comedy), or frightening (a
⑤ The Benefits of Strict Parenting on Child Behavior
man nearly falling off of a tall building). Their findings
showed that the women reacted more visibly to each film
type. Women also tend to experience emotional events

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more deeply ─ with more brain activation in areas sensitive

to emotion ─ and to remember the scenes better three
weeks later.

① Women and men have completely different brain

structures.
② Women tend to express and experience empathy
more visibly than men.
③ Men show more physiological empathy than women.
④ Empathy is not related to emotional response.
⑤ Both men and women react identically to emotional
stimuli.

16. 다음 글의 제목으로 가장 적절한 것은?16) [28강 3번]

Laughing and smiling are not just signals for others that
we are like them ─ they are strong emotional drives that
bind us together as a social species. They are just some
of the mechanisms that begin to integrate the individual
into a group. When my infant daughter burst into
laughter, she was demonstrating one of the most powerful
primitive needs to make contact. Without the ability to
laugh and smile, we would be isolated individuals. We use
laughter to lubricate awkward social interactions, as a way
of signalling that we are easy-going, not aggressive, and
potentially someone worth investing time and effort in. In
short, we use laughter to generate our reflected self
because our sense of self depends on what others think
of us, and being funny is considered by many in our
culture as an important measure of who we are. It is one
of the reasons that most of us think we have a better
than average sense of humor ─ although statistically, that
cannot be true. Very few people would readily admit that
they do not have a sense of humor.

① The Importance of Laughter and Smiling in Social Life

② The Biology of Infant Development
③ Why People Have Different Personalities
④ The History of Humor in Human Culture
⑤ How to Improve Your Sense of Humor

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가 통제할 수 없는 여러 의미를 만들어내는 텍스트 세

정답 및 해설 계이며, 이를 해석하는 독자의 역할이 중심적이다라고
설명하고 있습니다.

글의 요지, 주제문/제목 찾기 유형 8) ④: 이 글의 중심 내용은 예술에서는 정해진 규칙을 따르기

보다는 예술가의 직관과 창의성(혁신)이 더 중요하다는 것
1) ④: 이 글의 핵심은 창의성은 단순히 새로운 아이디어를 입니다. 글에서는 훌륭한 예술가는 기존의 규칙을 깨면서
만들어내는 데 그치지 않고, 그 아이디어들을 평가하고 도 새로운 조화를 만들어낸다고 말하며, Gainsborough가
실현 가능한 것을 선택하여 발전시키는 과정까지 포함 "Blue Boy" 작품에서 기존의 색채 규칙을 깨고도 훌륭한
해야 한다는 것입니다. 즉, 아이디어 생성(generation)과 결과를 낸 예를 들어 설명하고 있습니다.
함께 아이디어 평가(evaluation)가 반드시 동반되어야 진
정한 창의적 문제 해결이나 혁신으로 이어진다는 점을 9) ③: 이 글의 중심 주제는 진실이 지식 발전에 필수적이
강조하고 있습니다. 며, 소셜 미디어가 진실과 지식 축적에 큰 위협이 되고
있다는 것입니다. 특히 소셜 미디어에서의 허위 정보 확
2) ③: 이 글의 중심 내용은 부모가 자녀에게 전하려는 가치
산이 사회에 끼치는 해로운 영향(선거 조작, 폭력, 공황
가 실제로 자녀에게 어떻게 받아들여지는지를 점검하는
등)**을 설명하면서, 정확성을 보장하기 위한 사용자들의
것이 중요하다는 것입니다. 부모는 자신의 행동이 어떤
책임과 사실 확인의 중요성을 강조하고 있습니다.
메시지를 전달하는지를 명확히 하고, 자녀가 그 메시지
를 어떻게 해석하는지를 주기적으로 확인해야 한다고 강 10) ④: 이 글의 핵심 주제는 온라인 커뮤니티나 웹 기반
조하고 있습니다. 즉, 행동과 해석 사이의 차이를 인식하 데이터 환경에서 동일한 의견이 반복되고 강화되면서 '
고, 소통을 통해 이를 조율해야 한다는 것이 핵심입니다. 에코 챔버 효과'가 발생하고, 이로 인해 편향된 데이터
가 생성되어 빅데이터 분석 결과에 왜곡이 생길 수 있
3) ③: 이 글의 중심 주장은 창의성은 풍부한 지식뿐만 아니
다는 경고입니다.
라 문제를 새롭게 바라보고 유연하게 사고할 수 있는
능력도 필요하다는 것입니다. 단순히 많이 아는 것만으 11) ③: 이 글의 핵심 내용은 컴퓨터 과학자들이 프로그래
로는 부족하며, 문제를 재구성하고 통찰(insight)을 얻는 밍 언어나 프레임워크 이름을 정할 때, 언어의 뉘앙스나
과정이 중요하다고 강조합니다. 이 과정에서 준비, 휴식 깊은 의미를 고민하기보다는 개인 취향이나 좋아하는
(incubation), 유연한 사고, 동기, 끈기 등이 함께 작용한 것에서 이름을 따오는 경우가 많다는 점입니다. 예를 들
다는 복합적인 관점을 제시하고 있습니다. 어, Python은 Monty Python에서, Django는 재즈 기타리
스트 Django Reinhardt에서, Java와 JavaScript는 커피에
4) ③: 이 글의 핵심 내용은 가정과 학교 간의 문화적 가치
서 이름을 따온 사례를 들어 설명하고 있습니다.
차이로 인해 학생들이 오해받거나 갈등이 발생할 수 있
다는 것입니다. 특히 눈맞춤(eye contact)을 예로 들어, 12) ①: 이 글은 과거 통신 기술에 관한 전문가들의 예측이
문화적 배경에 따라 동일한 행동이 전혀 다른 의미로 실제 결과보다 훨씬 과장된 경우가 많았다는 점을 보여
해석될 수 있음을 강조하고 있습니다. 이로 인해 교사와 줍니다. 1963년 ‘화상 전화’ 도입 당시 1980년까지
학생, 또는 교사와 학부모 간의 오해가 생길 수 있다는 1,000만 대 보급 예상이 있었으나, 실제로는 거의 보급
점을 지적하고 있습니다. 되지 않았고, 1998년 ‘위성 연결 휴대폰’이 2006년까지
3,000만 가입자를 예상했지만, 현실은 훨씬 적었음을 설
5) ②: 이 글의 핵심 주장은 인간의 언어는 제한된 수의 소
명합니다. 반면, 스마트폰 등 최신 기기들은 극적인 보급
리를 조합하여 무한한 메시지를 전달할 수 있다는 점에
을 보여주긴 했지만, 글의 핵심은 예측의 과장됨과 실제
서 다른 동물의 의사소통 방식과 근본적으로 다르며, 우
보급의 차이입니다.
월하다는 것입니다. 글에서는 다른 동물들은 한 소리에
하나의 메시지만 담을 수 있어 표현이 제한된 반면, 인 13) ②: 이 글은 자율성 지원(autonomy support)이 내재화
간은 약 30~40개의 소리를 조합해 무한한 단어와 메시 (internalization), 즉 행동에 대한 내적 동기와 가치 형성
지를 만들 수 있다는 점을 강조하고 있습니다. 에 미치는 영향에 대해 설명하고 있습니다. 외부의 통제
(보상, 처벌 등)가 행동을 유발할 수는 있지만, 그 경우
6) ②: 이 글의 중심 주장은 언어는 다양한 용도를 가지고 아이가 행동을 내면화하지 못하고 외부 통제에만 의존
있지만, 그 본질적인 기능은 ‘의사소통을 통한 협력과 조 하게 된다고 말합니다. 반면, 이유를 설명하고 정서적 이
정’에 있다는 것입니다. 글의 후반부에서는 인간이 사회 해를 바탕으로 한 자율성 지원은 아이가 스스로 행동에
적 존재로서 집단 속에서 더 잘 살아남고 번영할 수 있 의미를 부여하고 자발적으로 행동하게 만듭니다.
기 때문에, 상호 이해를 위한 의사소통이 필수적이며, 그
것이 언어의 핵심 기능이라고 명확히 밝히고 있습니다. 14) ②: 이 글은 사람들이 자신의 행복을 평가할 때 특정한
삶의 한 측면에 주의를 집중하면, 그 부분의 중요성을
7) ②: 이 글의 핵심 주장은 문학 텍스트의 의미는 작가의 과대평가하게 되고, 결과적으로 전반적인 행복 평가가
의도가 아니라 독자의 해석에 의해 결정된다는 것입니 달라진다는 점을 설명하고 있습니다. 예를 들어, 데이트
다. 특히 New Criticism 이론을 통해, 문학 작품은 작가 횟수, 결혼 상태, 건강 등 어떤 요소에 먼저 집중하느냐

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에 따라 사람들이 자신을 얼마나 행복하다고 평가하는

지가 크게 변합니다. 이는 사람들이 자신의 전반적인 행
복 수준을 정확히 알지 못하고, 주목하는 부분에 의해
평가가 영향을 받기 때문입니다.

15) ②: 이 글은 남성과 여성의 공감(empathy) 표현과 경험

에 있어 차이가 있다는 점을 설명합니다. 심리적, 생리적
측면에서 여성은 남성보다 슬픔이나 기쁨과 같은 감정
을 더 잘 표현하고, 더 깊이 경험하며, 관련 뇌 활성도
더 높다는 연구 결과를 소개합니다. 자가 보고
(self-report)에서는 성별 차이가 크지만 심리 생리적 측
정에서는 차이가 더 작게 나타난다고 합니다. 결국 여성
들이 감정적 상황에 더 눈에 띄게 반응하고, 기억도 더
잘 한다는 점이 핵심입니다.

16) ①: 이 글은 웃음과 미소가 단순한 사회적 신호가 아니

라, 인간이 사회적 동물로서 서로를 연결시키고 그룹에
통합되는 강력한 감정적 기제임을 설명합니다. 웃음이
어색한 사회적 상황을 부드럽게 하고, 공격적이지 않다
는 신호를 보내며, 타인과의 관계 형성에 중요한 역할을
한다는 점이 강조됩니다. 또한, 웃음과 유머가 우리의 자
아 형성에 기여하며, 대부분 사람들이 자신의 유머 감각
을 긍정적으로 인식한다는 내용이 포함되어 있습니다.

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