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  • Have you ever had the feeling that everyone else seems so sorted, so at ease? You look about you and see friends chatting over lunch, people laughing on their mobiles, others escaping contentedly1 through novels or newspapers. According to Alexander Jordan and colleagues, most of us have such a tendency to underestimate other people's experience of negative emotion. In turn the researchers think this skewed perception perpetuates2 a collective delusion3 in which we all strive to present an unrealistically happy front because we think that's the norm.

    有没有觉得别人总是泰然自若?环顾四周,人们在午餐时惬意闲谈,笑语盈盈地通电话,或者醉心于书本里的世界。然而亚历山大?乔丹和他的同事们却认为,大部分人都倾向于低估他人的负面情绪体验,久而久之这种错觉让我们努力在人前摆出一种快乐的假象,并认为这样很正常。

    Jordan's team began their investigation4 by asking 63 undergrads to describe recent negative and positive emotional experiences they'd had. As expected, the negative examples (eg had an argument; was rejected by a boy/girl), more than the positive examples (eg attended a fun party; had a great meal), tended to occur in private and to provoke emotions that the students had attempted to suppress.

    乔丹的心理小组邀请了63位大学生,请他们描述近来经历的正面和负面的情绪体验。如研究者所料,负面的例子(如争吵,求爱被拒)比正面的例子(如参加一个有趣的聚会,享用了一顿大餐)多,而且一般负面的东西多涉及隐私,会激发学生试图压抑的情绪。

    The most frequently cited of these experiences were then put to a separate set of 80 students whose task was to say how many times in the last two weeks they had lived through something similar, and to estimate how often their peers had. The important finding here was that the students consistently underestimated their peers' experience of negative events whilst slightly over-estimating their peers' experience of positive situations.

    其中最普遍的经历被分发给另外80名同学,然后记录他们过去两周经历过类似事件的频率,并猜测同龄人经历的频率。这项重要的结果显示学生们都低估了同龄人经历负面情绪,而且稍微高估了正面情绪的经历。

    A final study showed that students with a greater tendency to underestimate their peers' negative emotions also tended to feel more lonely, less satisfied with life and to ruminate5 more, thus suggesting that underestimating others' misery6 could be harmful to our own well-being7. Of course the causal direction could run the other way (i.e. being lonely and discontented could predispose us to think everyone else is happier than they are), or both ways. The researchers acknowledged more research is needed to test this.

    一项最终的研究表明惯于低估同龄人负面情绪体验的学生往往更容易感觉孤单,对生活不满,更容易沉思多虑,这表明低估他人的烦恼对自身也有坏处,反之亦然,即孤单和不满可能让我们更容易觉得别人比自己更快乐,二者也可能会相互作用。然而研究人员称需要进一步研究才能证明。

    A fascinating implication of this research is that it could help explain the popularity of tragic8 art, be that in drama, music or books. "In fictional9 tragedy, people are given the opportunity to witness 'the terrible things in life' that are ordinarily 'played out behind the scenes'," the researchers said, "which may help to depathologize people's own negative emotional experiences."

    这项研究结果也可以用来解释悲剧类的艺术作品为何广受欢迎。研究者说:“在悲剧中,人们能够目睹‘生活中的悲惨事情',而这也正是‘舞台故事的来源',这有助于减轻人们自己的负面情绪体验。”

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    1 contentedly [kən'tentɪdlɪ] a0af12176ca79b27d4028fdbaf1b5f64   第8级
    adv.心满意足地
    参考例句:
    • My father sat puffing contentedly on his pipe.父亲坐着心满意足地抽着烟斗。
    • "This is brother John's writing,"said Sally,contentedly,as she opened the letter.
    2 perpetuates [pəˈpetʃu:ˌeɪts] ca4d0b1c49051470d38435abb05e5894   第9级
    n.使永存,使人记住不忘( perpetuate的名词复数 );使永久化,使持久化,使持续
    参考例句:
    • Giving these events a lot of media coverage merely perpetuates the problem. 媒体大量地报道这些事件只会使问题持续下去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • Lack of water perpetuates poverty, increases the risk of political instability, and affects global prosperity. 水资源短缺导致贫穷,使政局不稳,且影响全球的繁荣。 来自互联网
    3 delusion [dɪˈlu:ʒn] x9uyf   第8级
    n.谬见,欺骗,幻觉,迷惑
    参考例句:
    • He is under the delusion that he is Napoleon. 他患了妄想症,认为自己是拿破仑。
    • I was under the delusion that he intended to marry me. 我误认为他要娶我。
    4 investigation [ɪnˌvestɪˈgeɪʃn] MRKzq   第7级
    n.调查,调查研究
    参考例句:
    • In an investigation, a new fact became known, which told against him. 在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
    • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation. 他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
    5 ruminate [ˈru:mɪneɪt] iCwzc   第10级
    vt. 反刍;沉思;反复思考 vi. 沉思,反刍
    参考例句:
    • It is worth while to ruminate over his remarks. 他的话值得玩味。
    • The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass. 牛吃完草后开始反刍。
    6 misery [ˈmɪzəri] G10yi   第7级
    n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
    参考例句:
    • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class. 商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
    • He has rescued me from the mire of misery. 他把我从苦海里救了出来。
    7 well-being [wel 'bi:ɪŋ] Fe3zbn   第8级
    n.安康,安乐,幸福
    参考例句:
    • He always has the well-being of the masses at heart. 他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
    • My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference. 我关心他们的幸福,却被误解为多管闲事。
    8 tragic [ˈtrædʒɪk] inaw2   第7级
    adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的
    参考例句:
    • The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic. 污染海滩后果可悲。
    • Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues. 查理是个注定不得善终的人。
    9 fictional [ˈfɪkʃənl] ckEx0   第8级
    adj.小说的,虚构的
    参考例句:
    • The names of the shops are entirely fictional. 那些商店的名字完全是虚构的。
    • The two authors represent the opposite poles of fictional genius. 这两位作者代表了天才小说家两个极端。

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