2024届高三英语培优外刊阅读学案 人类性格话题

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜新研究：想作出正确抉择？先和未来的自己“见”一面 你是否有过这样的感受：为作出一个人生重大选择辗转反侧，忍不住幻想如果能和未来的自己见面，那么现阶段苦恼的问题都将迎刃而解。然而，事实并非如此，这不仅仅是因为我们没有穿越时空的超能力，心理学研究者表示，人们的大脑倾向于将未来的自己当成一个陌生人，因此难以对当下的自己产生实际影响。如何弥合这种“情感鸿沟”，让未来的你助现在的你一臂之力？ Time travel: What if you met your future self? By Hal Hershfield What if – and it is a big what if – you could meet your future self? What a very strange question, but one that I believe is worth asking. I'm a psychologist and professor. I explore the reasons why we have such a hard time making long-term decisions, and how – by improving the emotional connections we have with our future selves – we can ultimately make better choices. In my research, I've learnt that we often imagine our future self as another person. That tendency can create problems for us. One way to bridge the emotional gulf is to think of future selves in more concrete and vivid ways. What's vivid is emotional, and what’s emotional can kick us into action. In one recent study, for instance, my collaborators and I partnered with a bank and found that when customers were shown age-progressed images of themselves alongside encouraging messages about saving for retirement, they were about 16% more likely to make a retirement contribution than people who solely received the encouraging messages. Admittedly, showing people images of their older face, or having them engage in a hypothetical conversation, are far cries from actually meeting one's future self. However, the truth is, you don't need to wait for time travel or advanced AI for answers that you can act on. Through my research as a psychologist, I've learnt that simply taking a bit of time to picture this meeting can help you make better choices now. All you need is a little imagination, and the willingness to put yourself in the shoes of a person you currently treat as a stranger. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.self英 [self] 美 [self] n. _____________________________ 2.worth英 [wɜːθ] 美 [wɜrː