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變化?!?。rsquo。rsquo。你對此表示不屑?當人們合成快樂時,他們真正的,真實的從感情上和審美角度上改變了對那幅畫的看法。但是我們中的一些人比另外一些人對這樣的竅門掌握的更好。但是自由選擇決斷力和改變決定的能力是人工合成快樂的敵人。rsquo。quot。當然,呆伯特(Dilbert)已經(jīng)知道了。我該怎么說你?”?!?。”。啊!在你說了之后,這些紙看上去是要光滑一些?!薄?br /> The psychological immune system works bestwhen we are totally stuck, when we are is the difference between dating and go out on a date with a guy,and he picks his nose。rsquo。rsquo。嗯, 他有金子一般的心。rsquo。s an experiment we did at created a blackandwhite photography course,and we allowed students to e in and learn how to use a we gave them cameras。they figure out which are the two best pictures。我們開設了黑白攝影課程。每人能拍12張照片。我們做了一個膠片印出的小樣。他們有了兩張極有紀念意義的8*10的照片。我不能兩張都要嗎?”。因此你必須放棄一張。 Now, there are two conditions in this one case, the students are told,But you know,if you want to change your mind,Iamp。 Yeah, amp。 Iamp。ll e to your dorm room,just give me an yet, Iamp。s totally returnable.amp。Half of the students in each of these conditionsare asked to make predictionsabout how much theyamp。你知道,如果你改變了主意,另外一張還在我這里??偛俊薄V灰愀淖兞酥饕?,我們可以換照片。順便說一下,另外一張照片馬上就要寄到英國去。然后, 我們讓每組中一半的學生來預測他們對留下的照片和送走的照片的喜愛程度會如何。 First of all, hereamp。re going to maybe e to like the picture they chosea little more than the one they left behind,but these are not statistically significant amp。t much matterwhether they were in the reversible or irreversible condition. 首先,這里是學生們覺得事情會怎樣。 Wrongo. Bad simulators. Because hereamp。s really right before the swap and five days later,people who are stuck with that picture,who have no choice,who can never change their mind,like it a lot!And people who are deliberating amp。t the good one?Maybe I left the good one?amp。t like their picture,and in fact even after the opportunity to swap has expired,they still donamp?!薄J聦嵣?,甚至在交換期結(jié)束后,他們還是不喜歡自己的照片。s the final piece of this bring in a whole new group of naive Harvard studentsand we say, amp。re doing a photography course,and we can do it one of two could do it so that when you take the two pictures,youamp。re doing another course where you take the two picturesand you make up your mind right away and you can never change course would you like to be in?amp。我們告訴他們:”。一但做了選擇,你就不能更改。因為他們不知道在什么條件下,人工合成快樂有效。rsquo。rsquo。他說的有點夸張。事真的無善惡之分嗎?膽囊手術(shù)真的和到巴黎旅行一樣嗎?(笑聲)這聽上去想一個IQ測試題。In other words: yes, some things are better than others. 現(xiàn)代資本主義之父,亞當。人生中的悲劇與無序之源,似乎皆來源于人們過高地評估某種時局,誠然,某些時局確實值得人們追求,但是,不管這種追求有多大的合理性,我們都不可因這種癡情的追求而打破謹慎、公正的法則,亦不可破壞我們未來的心境。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。當我們的追求不受節(jié)制的時候,我們會生活得很痛苦,甚至會去欺詐,偷竊,傷害他人,更甚至是犧牲真正有價值的東西。 Thank you.(Applause) 謝謝。當我們的畏懼失去節(jié)制并無限膨脹的時候,我們會變得魯莽大意,或者膽小如鼠。但是,假如我們過分看重不同選擇之間的差異,因而拼命的追求我們想要的東西時,我們就可能面臨危險。rsquo。rsquo?!?。這是值得思考的。 In more turgid prose,but closer to the truth,was the father of modern capitalism,Adam Smith, and he said is worth contemplating:The great source of both the misery and disorders of human lifeseems to arise from overrating the differencebetween one permanent situation and another Some of these situations may, no doubt,deserve to be preferred to others,but none of them can deserve to be pursuedwith that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the ruleseither of prudence or of justice,or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds,either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly,or by remorse for the horror of our own injustice.amp?!?。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。啊! 66%的學生,差不多三分之二更愿意加入那個可以改變選擇的。一是你拍兩張照片,然后有四天來選擇保留哪張照片。 Duh!66 percent of the students, twothirds,prefer to be in the course where they have the opportunity to change their ? 66 percent of the students choose to be in the coursein which they will ultimately be deeply dissatisfied with the they do not know the conditions under which synthetic happiness grows. 這里是這個實驗的最后一部分。d have four days to change your mind,or weamp。You know,weamp。 So hereamp。這些問題簡直折磨人。t like their ?Because the [reversible] condition is not conduciveto the synthesis of happiness. 錯啦!這一次模擬器工作得很不好!實際上,在交換以前和5天后,那些沒有交換權(quán),不能選擇,不能更改決定的學生,非常喜歡他們的照片。 have killed donamp。Should I return it?Have I gotten the right one? Maybe this isnamp。s whatamp。但是這算不上是統(tǒng)計上的顯著差異。s a very small increase,and it doesnamp。s what students think is going to think theyamp。我們測量了在后來的三到六天之中,他們對照片的喜愛和滿意程度。你再也見不到它了。其他的學生被告知的正好相反:”。事實上,我會把照片送到你的寢室來換,只要發(fā)電郵給我就行了。我很樂意。re going to e to like the picture that they keepand the picture they leave students are just sent back to their little dorm roomsand they are measured over the next three to six dayson their liking, satisfaction with the look at what we find. 現(xiàn)在,這個實驗又分為兩種。The other half of the students are told exactly the opposite:Make your choice, and by the way,the mail is going out, gosh,in two minutes, to picture will be winging its way over the will never see it again.amp。ll check with ever want to change your mind,itamp。ll be glad to swap it out with fact, Iamp。headquartersamp。ll always have the other one here,and in the next four days, before I actually mail it to headquartersamp。你留一張,我留一張。噢,不能。哪一張你不要?”。然后我們用了6個小時教他們?nèi)绾问褂冒凳?。任何留給他們哈佛回憶的東西,都可以拍。我們給他們相機。quot。they took 12 pictures of their favorite professorsand their dorm room and their dog,and all the other things they wanted to have Harvard memories bring us the camera。 Hereamp。是吧?你自我開導,滿于現(xiàn)狀。這就是約會和婚姻的區(qū)別,是吧?你出去和一個男人約會,他扣扣鼻孔,你就不會跟他在約會了。rsquo。rsquo?!薄!??!薄!?。我的打印機在每個文件打印完畢后都會出一張白紙?!?。rsquo。rsquo。rsquo。自由,決斷力和改變決定的能力是幫助我們獲得天然快樂的朋友。 When psychologists show you bars,you know that they are showing you averages of lots of yet, all of