反对错误表述耶鲁大学校长对新生话.docxVIP

编者按:在日益全球化的今天，我们每时每刻都会接收各式各样的信息，如何识别和抵制那些错误的表述？如何学会批判性地思考？如何客观地去判断事实真相？是选择支持最符合自己价值观的见解，还是尝试去理解那些不同的声音？让我们一起来聆听耶鲁大学校长彼得·沙诺维教授在开学第一天讲给学生的话。Countering False NarrativesSpeaker: Peter Salovey, President of Yale University Date: Saturday, August 27, 2016演讲人：耶鲁大学校长 彼得·沙洛维 ?2016年 8月27日 星期六?图为耶鲁大学现任校长 彼得·沙诺维Event: Freshman Address, Yale College Class of 2020Good morning and welcome: to my colleagues here on stage, to the family members who have joined us today, and—especially—to the Yale College Class of 2020.耶鲁大学2020届新生入学欢迎辞在场的各位同事、各位家长，特别是2020届耶鲁大学新生们，早上好！欢迎你们！?耶鲁大学Twenty‐twenty—isa term that inevitably brings to mind perfect vision, perfect eyesight. And now that all of you are wearing 2020 as your class label in Yale College, I am confident that your intuition and your mental acuity will develop here to an equivalent level of strength. The admissions office assures me that everything possible has been done to guarantee this outcome.提到“2020”，不禁令人畅想美好的未来。现在它将成为你们在耶鲁大学的班级代号。我相信你们的感知与思维都会在此得到发展。为此，招生办公室已确保一切就绪。Nonetheless, I’d like to reflect—on your “first day of school”—about what might impede your insight and what might advance it in the course of your education here.不过，开学第一天，我还是要谈谈你们在耶鲁学习期间，什么将影响你们的洞察力，什么又将使其得以提升。?For many years, I taught introductory psychology to large numbers of freshmen. In the part of the course devoted to social psychology, I would ask my students to consider what we know about helping others in various kinds of social situations. Specifically, why is it that we offer assistance, or fail to offer assistance, in emergencies?多年来，我为很多新生上过《心理学入门》。讲到社会心理学部分时，我常会要求学生思考人们在各种社会情景中帮助他人的事情。尤其思考在危急时我们对他人提供及未能提供帮助的原因各是什么。?I would begin with the tragic and well known case of Kitty Genovese, atwenty‐nine‐year‐old woman who lived in Kew Gardens, Queens, and was murdered there in 1964. Her case received enormous attention and commentary, and you have probably heard some version of her story. As reported in the New York Times, thirty‐eight individuals watched the