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双语-选择的艺术 2014-12-07?大耳朵网站 Weighing the options 选择的艺术 你是不是也有“选择恐惧症”？在做选择时，你是个追求完美的“最大化者”，还是知足常乐的“满足者”？一起来听专家们的建议吧！ Making decisions when shopping is often a tough call. Even if you’re satisfied with the first dress you try on, would you go on looking for alternatives, comparing styles and prices, until you literally dropped dead?在购物时做决定往往十分困难。就算对自己试穿的第一件衣服很满意，你会不会继续尝试其他选择，在各种风格与价格之间比来比去，直到“倒地而亡”？ According to a recent Wall Street Journal column, psychology researchers have studied how people make decisions and concluded there are two basic styles. “Maximizers” like to take their time and weigh a wide range of options — sometimes every possible one — before choosing. “Satisficers” (combination of the word “satisfice” and “satisfy”) would rather be fast than thorough.据《华尔街日报》日前一专栏报道：心理研究人员对人们作出决定的过程进行了研究，并将其总结成两种基本风格：一是愿意花时间对各种选择进行考虑的“最大化者”，二是不求全面只求速度的 “满足者”。英文中，Satisficers (满足者)一词由satisfice（为取得某一目标不惜最低要求）与satisfy（满足）组合而成。 “Maximizers are people who want the best. Satisficers are people who want good enough,” Barry Schwartz, a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and the author of The Paradox of Choice told The Wall Street Journal.《选择的悖论》一书的作者、宾夕法尼亚斯州沃斯莫尔学院的心理学教授巴里?施瓦茨在接受《华尔街日报》的采访时说：“‘最大化者’想要最好的，而‘满足者’只要足够好就可以了。” In a study published in 2006 in the journal Psychological Science, Schwartz and his colleagues followed 548 job-seeking college seniors at 11 schools from October through their graduation in June. They found that the maximizers landed better jobs. Their starting salaries were, on average, 20 percent higher than those of the satisficers, but they felt worse about their jobs.在2006年发表于《心理科学》杂志的一项研究中，施瓦茨和他的同事们调查了来自11所大学的548名大四学生从当年十月至来年六月间找工作的情况。他们发现“最大化者”能找到更好的工作，起薪普遍比“满足者”高20%，但是他们对工作的满意度却不及“满足者”。 No right choice没有正确的选择 “The maximizer is kicking himself because he can’t examine every option and at some point had to just pick something,” Schwartz says. “Maximizers make good decisions and end up feeling bad about them. Satisfice