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2019年雅思阅读全真模拟题

2019年雅思阅读全真模拟题:幸福的科学解释

Can Scientists tell us: What happiness is?

A

Economists accept that if people describe themselves as happy, then they

are happy. However, psychologists differentiate between levels of happiness. The

most immediate type involves a feeling; pleasure or joy. But sometimes happiness

is a judgment that life is satisfying, and does not imply an emotional state.

Esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman has spearheaded an effort to study the

science of happiness. The bad news is that we're not wired to be happy. The good

news is that we can do something about it. Since its origins in a Leipzig

laboratory 130 years ago, psychology has had little to say about goodness and

contentment. Mostly psychologists have concerned themselves with weakness and

misery. There are libraries full of theories about why we get sad, worried, and

angry. It hasn't been respectable science to study what happens when lives go

well. Positive experiences, such as joy, kindness, altruism and heroism, have

mainly been ignored. For every 100 psychology papers dealing with anxiety or

depression, only one concerns a positive trait.

B

A few pioneers in experimental psychology bucked the trend. Professor Alice

Isen of Cornell University and colleagues have demonstrated how positive

emotions make people think faster and more creatively. Showing how easy it is to

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