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 TED 如何讓壓力成為你的朋友 - 英文(2)

演講者： 凱莉·麥高尼格 (健康心理學家)

(Laughter) 

That is over 20,000 deaths a year.

Now, if that estimate is correct, that would make believing stress is bad for you, the 15^th largest cause of death in the United States last year, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV/ AIDS and homicide.

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You can see why this study freaked me out.

Here I have been spending so much energy telling people stress is bad for your health.

So this study got me wondering: Can changing how you think about stress make you healthier? And here the science says yes.

When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body’s response to stress.

Now to explain hoe this works, I want you all to pretend that you are participants in a study designed to stress you out.

It is called the social stress test.

You come into the laboratory, and you are told you have to give a five-minute impromptu speech on your personal weaknesses to a panel expert evaluators sitting right front of you, and to make sure you feel the pressure, there are bright lights and a camera in your face, kind of like this.

And the evaluators have been trained to give you discouraging, non-verbal feedback like this.

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Now that you are sufficiently demoralized, time for part two: a math test.

And unbeknownst to you, the experimenter has been trained to harass you during it.

Now we are going to all do this together, it is going to be fun.

For me.

Okay, I want you all to count backwards form 996 in increments of seven.

You are going to do this out loud as fast a you cam, starting with 996.

Go.

Audience: (Counting)

Go faster. Faster please.

You are going too slow.

Stop. Stop, stop, stop.

That guy made mistake.

We are going to have to start all over again.

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You are not very good at this, are you?

Okay, so you get the idea.