TED演讲之生与死:老年人更快乐(3)

But as social scientists, we continue to ask 但作为社会学家,我们继续问 about possible alternatives. 是否有其他可能 We've said, well maybe older people 也许老年人 report more positive emotions 报告更多的积极感受 because they're cognitively impaired. 是因为他们认知机能受损 We've said, could it be 会不会 that positive emotions are simply easier to process than nega...

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TED演讲之生与死:老年人更快乐(2)

Study after study 一个又一个的研究 is coming to the same conclusion. 证实了相同的结论 The CDC recently conducted a survey 疾病防治中心(CDC)最近进行了一次调查 where they asked respondents simply to tell them 他们简单地要求受试者来报告 whether they experienced significant psychological distress 在过去的一周里自己是否经历了 in the previous week. 重大的心理困扰 And fewer older p...

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TED演讲之生与死:老年人更快乐(1)

People are living longer 人们现在越活越久 and societies are getting grayer. 社会也逐渐变得老龄化 You hear about it all the time. 你可能总是听到别人这么说 You read about it in your newspapers. 你也从报纸上如是读到 You hear about it on your television sets. 从电视上看到 Sometimes I'm concerned 有时候我很担心 that we hear about it so much 我们听过长寿太多次 that we've c...

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TED演讲:老年人更快乐(5)

And all things being equal, older people direct their cognitive resources, 在同等条件下,老年人会将自己的认知资源, like attention and memory, to positive information more than negative. 比如注意力和记忆力,更多地导向积极信息,而不是消极信息。 If we show older, middle-aged, younger people images, like the ones you see on the screen, 我们向老年组、中年组和青年...

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TED演讲:老年人更快乐(2)

How did this happen? Well, we’re no genetically hardier than our ancestors were 10,000 years ago. 这是怎么发生的?我们并不是在基因上比一万年前的祖先强壮。 This increase in life expectancy is the remarkable product of culture 平均寿命的增加全要归功于文化, the crucible that holds science and technology and wide-scale changes in behavior that improve health ...

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TED演讲:老年人更快乐(6)

So how can this be? Well, in our research, 这是为什么呢?在我们的研究里, we’ve found that these changes are grounded fundamentally in the uniquely human ability to monitor time 我们发现这些改变在最基本上植根于人类监控时间的独特能力, not just clock time and calendar time, but lifetime. 不光是时钟的时间和日历的时间,更是生命的时间。 And if there̵...

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TED演讲:老年人更快乐(1)

People are living longer and societies are getting grayer. 人们现在越活越久,社会也逐渐变得老龄化。 You hear about it all the time. You read about it in your newspapers. 你可能总是听到别人这么说。你从报纸上如是读到。 You hear about it on your television sets. 你也可以从电视上看到。 Sometimes, I’m concerned that we hear about it so much 有时候我很...

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TED演讲:老年人更快乐(3)

Now social scientists call this the paradox of aging. 社会学家称这种现象为老龄化悖论。 I mean, after all, aging is not a piece of cake. 老龄化可不是小事。 So we’ve asked all sorts of questions to see if we could undo this finding. 我们问了各种各样的问题,试图推翻这个研究结论。 We’ve asked whether it may be that the current generations of older ...

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TED演讲:老年人更快乐(4)

And using this intense study of individuals, 通过这种对个人的密集调查, we find that it’s not one particular generation that’s doing better than the others, 我们发现并没有任何一代人比其他人更好, but the same individuals over time come to report relatively greater positive experience. 但是同一个人随着年岁增长,开始报告相对更积极的体验。 Now you...

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TED演讲:老年人更快乐(7)

As we age, our time horizons grow shorter and our goals change. 当我们逐渐变老,跟人生终点的距离不断缩短,我们的人生目标从而改变。 When we recognize that we don’t have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly. 当我们意识到时间不再多的可以尽情挥霍,就能清楚地看到事情的轻重缓急。 We take less notice of trivial matters. We savor life. ...

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老年人心理障碍的预防

随着我国逐渐步人老龄社会,老年人的心理健康已越来越引起人们的重视。下面谈谈几种老年人常见的心理障碍的预防方法。 (1)心因性障碍的预防。一个人的心理健康状况如何,除了直接受社会文化因素的影响外,与他的高级神经活动过程的均衡性和灵活性也有着密切的关系。神经学专家指出,神经类型虽然具有天赋的特性,但仍然存在着高度的可塑性。因此,人们要经常训练自己的个性,包括坚强的性格,以培养自己...

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闲聊有益老年人身心健康

美国权威学术期刊《人际关系》6月号上的一篇论文阐述了闲聊的好处。美国俄克拉何马大学心理学博士詹妮弗-波森在进行了一系列实验性研究之后,发现了一个有趣的现象:当几个人在一起闲谈,甚至说别人坏话时,他们之间的友谊往往可以突飞猛进地发展。詹妮弗强调,说别人坏话虽不是好事,不该提倡,但闲聊的积极作用是不可否认的。所以,我们不必把市井闲谈一律认为是低俗有害的。 除了增进友谊,闲聊其实还有...

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老年人说出来,别憋着

悄然无语的世界,任何人都不能容忍。一个人来到这个世界,首先伴随着的就是哭声。哭声就是婴儿的语言。长期不能说话的人方才懂得言语对于一个人是多么的重要。据说少奇主席的夫人王光美同志就是因为长期在监狱里不能够说话,出狱之后曾用一段时间去恢复言语的能力。说话是一个人与生俱来的权利,说话也是保持身心健康必要和重要的条件。为了健康,就天天都要说话。上了年纪的人,人际交往的机会相对少了,...

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