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The 811 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn
The 811 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn
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2024-02-22
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The 811 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right" into positive ones like "I can succeed." But was positive thinking advocate Norman, Vincent Peale right? Is there power in positive thinking?
Researchers in Canada just published a study in the journal Psychological Science that says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are.
The study’s authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New Brunswick, begin by citing older research showing that when people get feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better. If you tell your dim friend that he has the potential of an Einstein, you’re just underlining his faults. In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled. When the essayists were later praised for their sympathy, they felt even worse about what they had written.
In this experiment, Wood, Lee and Perunovic measured 68 students’ self-esteem. The participants were then asked to write down their thoughts and feelings for four minutes. Every 15 seconds, one group of students heard a bell. When it rang, they were supposed to tell themselves, "I am lovable."
Those with low self-esteem didn’t feel better after the forced self-affirmation. In fact, their moods turned significantly darker than those of members of the control group, who weren’t urged to think positive thoughts.
The paper provides support for newer forms for psychotherapy (心理治疗) that urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them. In the fighting, we not only often fail but can make things worse. Meditation (静思) techniques, in contrast, can teach people to put their shortcomings into a larger, more realistic perspective. Call it the power of negative thinking.
[br] What do we learn from the last paragraph?
选项
A、The effects of positive thinking vary from person to person.
B、Meditation may prove to be a good form of psychotherapy.
C、Different people tend to have different ways of thinking.
D、People can avoid making mistakes through meditation.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。最后一段首先提出了心理治疗的新模式,然后紧接着提到Meditation techniques,in contrast,can teach people to put their shortcomings into a larger,more realistic perspective.Call it the power of negative thinking.(而相反的,静思的技巧能教会人们把自己的缺点放到一个更广泛、更现实的角度。我们可以称其为消极思考的力量。)由此可以推断出B)Meditation may prove to be a good form of psychotherapy.(静思可能被证明是一个好的心理治疗的模式。)其他选项文中均未直接提及。因此选B。
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