TED英文演说-你到底是谁，人格之谜中英文演讲稿.pdfVIP

Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality BrianLittle2016 Whatanintriguinggroupofindividualsyouare...toapsychologist. 你们是多么有趣的一群人啊…… 当然，是对心理学家而言。 Ivehadtheopportunityoverthelastcoupleofdaysoflisteninginonsomeof yourconversationsandwatchingyouinteractwitheachother.AndIthinkits fairto say,already,thatthere are47peopleinthis audience,atthismoment, displayingpsychologicalsymptomsIwouldliketodiscusstoday. 在过去几天里，我有机会倾听你们的交谈，观察你们的互动。我想我已经可以大 胆地说，此时此刻，在你们中间，有47个人，已经表现出了精神病症状，我今 天就想聊聊这个。 And Ithoughtyoumightliketoknowwhoyou are.Butinsteadofpointingat you,whichwouldbegratuitousandintrusive,IthoughtIwouldtellyouafew factsandstories,inwhichyoumaycatchaglimpseofyourself. 我想你们都很想知道到底是谁有精神病。我不会直接指出来，因为那样很没必要， 也不礼貌，我会列举一些事实和情况，你们可以跟自己对照一下。 Iminthefieldofresearchknownaspersonalitypsychology,whichispartofa larger personality science which spans the full spectrum, from neurons to narratives.And what we try to do, in our ownway, is to make sense ofhow each of us — each of you — is, in certain respects, like all other people,like someotherpeopleandlikenootherperson. 我从事的是人格心理学研究，它属于人格科学的范畴。人格科学的研究领域跨度 很大，从神经元到叙述学。而我们的研究方向，是用我们的方式，来弄清楚，为 什么我们每一个人——在座的每一位—— 在某些方面，跟其他所有人都一样，或 者只跟部分人一样，或者跟谁都不一样。 Now,alreadyyoumaybesayingofyourself, Imnotintriguing.Iamthe46th 1 第 页 most boring person in the Western Hemisphere. Or you may say of yourself, I am intriguing, even if I am regarded by most people as a great, thundering twit. 也许你们会评价自己 “我不是个有趣的人。我在西半球最无趣排行榜上排第 46 名。” 也许你会评价自己，“我是个有趣的人，尽管大部分人都觉得我是个傻瓜。” But it is your self-diagnosed boringness and your inherent twitiness that makes me, as a psychologist, really fascinated by you. So let me explain why this is so. 但正是你们这种自我认知的无聊或者内在的“傻”，让我这个心理学家觉得非常有 趣。我来解释一下为什么。 One of the most influential approaches in personality science is known as trait p