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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"

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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 does the author mean by "... you’re just underlining his faults" (Line4, Para. 3)?
选项 A、You are not taking his mistakes seriously enough.
B、You are pointing out the errors he has committed.
C、You are emphasizing the fact that he is not intelligent.
D、You are trying to make him feel better about his faults.
答案C
解析 细节题。根据题干定位到文章第三段第二句：If you tell your dim friend that he has the potential of an Einstein，you’re just underlining his faults．(如果你告诉自己有点笨的朋友他有成为爱因斯坦的潜质，其实就等于在强调他的缺点。)这里faults很容易误导选为B(你在指出他所犯的错误)。而综合上下文，这里应该指的是缺点的意思。选项C(你在强调他不够聪明的事实)符合题意。因此选C。
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