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Don’t Worry, Be Happy A) A cynic, Ambrose Bierce remarked in his "Devil’s Dictionary", is "a blackguard (无赖,恶棍) whose faulty
Don’t Worry, Be Happy A) A cynic, Ambrose Bierce remarked in his "Devil’s Dictionary", is "a blackguard (无赖,恶棍) whose faulty
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy
A) A cynic, Ambrose Bierce remarked in his "Devil’s Dictionary", is "a blackguard (无赖,恶棍) whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." In the century that has elapsed since Bierce’s death, science has caught up with him. Cynicism, in all its guises, really may make us see the world more realistically— though at a high personal cost.
B) The phenomenon, which psychologists call "depressive realism", was first identified by Lauren Alloy and Lyn Abramson, psychologists at Northwestern and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, respectively, who were studying the illusion that people often have of being in control when, in reality, they are not. In 1979, they took two groups of college students—one depressed, one not—and had them estimate how much control they had over a green light that would either rum on or not when they pressed a button. In reality, there was never a perfect correlation between the action and the event. The light would sometimes turn on when the student pressed the button, and sometimes when he didn’t. What varied from student to student was the frequency with which the action corresponded with a result. The researchers found that the depressed individuals were much better at identifying those instances when they had little control over the outcomes, while the non-depressed students tended to overestimate their degree of influence over the light.
C) The difference became even more interesting when Alloy and Abramson added money into the experiment. In some cases, the light was linked to losing money. Participants started out with five dollars and gradually lost it, quarter by quarter, as the light didn’t respond to their actions. In the other cases, the light signaled financial gain; participants started with nothing but received a quarter each time the light went on. At the end, each person in the first situation emerged having lost five dollars, and each in the second having won five dollars.
D) When the researchers asked the participants how much control they thought they’d had throughout the experiment, those who weren’t depressed reported having significantly more control than they actually had—but only when they won. When they lost, they estimated that they had much less control than was the case. The depressed participants, on the other hand, were far more accurate in their judgments. Depression, Alloy and Abramson concluded, had prevented an unwarranted (毫无依据的) illusion of control when someone won—and had provided a sense of responsibility when someone lost. In the years since Alloy and Abramson’s initial studies, depressive realism has also been shown to arise from general pessimism and, yes, from cynicism.
E) By 1992, Alloy and Abramson had replicated their findings in numerous contexts. Not only were depressed individuals more realistic in their judgments, they argued, but the very illusion of being in control held by those who weren’t depressed was likely protecting them from depression. In other words, the rose-colored glow, no matter how unwarranted, helped people to maintain a healthier mental state. Depression bred objectivity. A lack of objectivity led to a healthier, more adaptive, and more resilient (能复原的) mind-set.
F) Why would that be the case? As it turns out, the way we explain the world can have very real effects on our physical and emotional well-being—both positive and negative. It’s a phenomenon that the Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert has called the "psychological immune system", a feedback loop between how we think and how we feel. If we think more optimistically, we tend to feel better, which in turn makes us think more optimistically.
G) The notion that our outlook on life is connected to our well-being is not a new one. In the nineteen-sixties, the University of Connecticut psychologist Julian Rotter proposed that we could view external events in one of two lights: either we controlled them or they were the result of something in the environment. He found that successful people tended to follow the same patterns. They took credit for successes, and they reasoned away negative events.
H) A decade later, the University of Massachusetts psychologists Bobbi Fibel and W. Daniel Hale realized that the effect went even further: when you thought you’d do well—a mind-set that they termed a "generalized expectancy of success"—you were more likely to be shielded from negative life events. It didn’t matter whether you were in control; what mattered was your belief that you had good things coming to you. Positive expectations generally lead to positive results.
I) Most recently, the psychologists Michael Scheier and Charles Carver have taken the insight further still: the positive buffer comes from neither simply control nor expectation alone. Instead, it’s your general outlook on life, or, as they call it, your "life orientation". Their Life Orientation Test, or LOT, measures how a person responds to a set of statements that range from "I hardly expect things to go my way" to "In uncertain times, I usually expect the best." Positive responses are associated with generalized success and negative responses are related to depression and helplessness.
J) In a review of the field, Carver and Scheier have further expanded their initial findings to show that increased optimism, after controlling for other factors, also leads to improved career success, strengthens friendships and marriages, protects against loneliness later in life, lowers the risk of heart disease and mortality (死亡率) in women, protects against strokes, helps to reduce the need for rehospitalization (重复住院) following surgery, and improves sleep quality in children. In all cases, optimism serves as a shield, allowing us to see the world in a light that is more helpful to our own mental and physical well-being.
K) It all comes back, Daniel Gilbert says, to expectations. When we expect to do well, we push on. When we set our sights lower, we balk at signs of resistance. Depressive realists and cynics set themselves lower goals to begin with and then give up when they find that they are falling short. As everyone’s favorite pessimist, A. A. Milne’s Eeyore, tells Pooh, "We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it." His expectations are so low that the effort doesn’t seem worth it. The negative view is self-fulfilling: you set lower expectations, do less, achieve less, and experience a worse outcome, which in turn conforms to your initial negative views.
L) Of course, unwarranted optimism, too, comes with a price. It’s Tigger, the unrelenting (不屈不挠的) optimist, who finds himself eating thistles, stuck in trees, and otherwise caught in all manner of inopportune situations. When we’re overconfident and think we’re in control of situations when we’re not, we may find ourselves overreaching and persisting in hopeless tasks. It’s a fine balance.
M) Set your goals too high, and the effects on health can be just as perilous (危险的, 不利的). Aspire to an Olympic medal in figure skating when you can barely clear a double Axel, and you’re doomed to disappointment.
N) Still, it seems that, at least as far as the research goes, it’s far healthier to think like Tigger than like Eeyore.
It has already been proposed by Julian Rotter in the 1960s that we would view external events either as a result of environment or something under our control.
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答案
G
解析
题干意为,在20世纪60年代朱利安.罗特就已提出,我们要么视外部事件为环境的产物,要么处于我们的控制之中。根据题干中的关键词Julian Rotter和1960s可定位到G段。该段第二句提到,早在20世纪60年代。康涅狄格大学的心理学家朱利安.罗特就已提出,我们看待外部事件的方式无外乎以下两种:它们不是被我们所控制,便是环境的产物。由此可知,题干是对原文的同义转述,故选G。
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