教授|TED | 哈佛心理学教授:到底是什么造成了人和人之间的差异


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 教授|TED | 哈佛心理学教授:到底是什么造成了人和人之间的差异
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What an intriguing group of individuals you are ... to a psychologist.
你们是多么有趣的一群人啊……当然,是对心理学家而言。
I've had the opportunity over the last couple of days of listening in on some of your conversations and watching you interact with each other. And I think it's fair to say, already, that there are 47 people in this audience, at this moment, displaying psychological symptoms I would like to discuss today.
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 I thought you might like to know who you are.
我想你们都很想知道到底是谁有精神病。
But instead of pointing at you, which would be gratuitous and intrusive, I thought I would tell you a few facts and stories, in which you may catch a glimpse of yourself.
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。
I'm in the field of research known as personality psychology, which is part of a larger personality science which spans the full spectrum, from neurons to narratives. And what we try to do, in our own way, is to make sense of how each of us -- each of you -- is, in certain respects, like all other people, like some other people and like no other person.
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, already you may be saying of yourself, "I'm not intriguing. I am the 46th 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 psychology, and it aligns you along five dimensions which are normally distributed, and that describe universally held aspects of difference between people. They spell out the acronym OCEAN. So, "O" stands for "open to experience," versus those who are more closed.
人格心理学中最有影响力的方法叫做特质理论,它用5个正态分布的维度判定你,这5个维度描述了被广泛认同的人与人之间不同的5个方面。这5个方面的首字母缩写是OCEAN。“O”代表“开放性”,与之对立的是那些不愿冒险的人。
"C" stands for "conscientiousness," in contrast to those with a more lackadaisical approach to life. "E" -- "extroversion," in contrast to more introverted people. "A" -- "agreeable individuals," in contrast to those decidedly not agreeable. And "N" -- "neurotic individuals," in contrast to those who are more stable.
“C”代表的是“责任感”,与之相反的是那些懒散随意的人。“E”指的是“外向性”,与之相对的是内向的人。“A”——“宜人性” 与之相对的是不那么和善的人。最后是“N”—— “神经质” 与之相对的是那些更加稳定平和的人。
All of these dimensions have implications for our well-being, for how our life goes. And so we know that, for example, openness and conscientiousness are very good predictors of life success, but the open people achieve that success through being audacious and, occasionally, odd. The conscientious people achieve it through sticking to deadlines, to persevering, as well as having some passion.
这5个方面影响我们的健康,影响我们的人生走向。众所周知,开放性和责任感往往意味着成功,但开放的人在通往成功之路上变得大胆,有时甚至古怪。有责任感的人会紧守最后期限,获得成功,他们坚持不懈,他们怀有激情。


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