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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"
The 811 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right"
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2011-01-08
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问题
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.
What do we learn from the first paragraph about the self-help industry?
选项
A、It is a highly profitable industry.
B、It is based on the concept of positive thinking.
C、It was established by Norman Vincent Peale.
D、It has yielded positive results.
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据题干定位到文章第一段第一句: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.”(8110亿自助产业建立在人们该把类似“我做什么事都不对”这种消极观念转变为“我能成功”这类积极想法的概念基础之上。)选项B(它以积极思考的概念为基础)符合原文。选项C(它是由诺曼-文森特-珀尔创立的)。根据第一段倒数第二句But was positive thinking advocate Norman Vincent Peale right?(但是倡导积极观念的诺曼-文森特-珀尔真的是正确的吗?)这里说的是倡导者而不是创立者。因此与原文不符。选项A、C文中未提及。因此选B。
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