Name: TEDx】陷入負面情緒（以及如何擺脫困境）｜艾莉森-萊格伍德｜TEDxUCDavis｜TEDxUCDavis。 (【TEDx】Getting stuck in the negatives (and how to get unstuck) | Alison Ledgerwood | TEDxUCDavis)
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So instead I thought I would talk a little today about how people think.

which basically means I'm a professional people watcher.

and how we might be able to think better.

Here's something I noticed a few years ago about how I seem to think;

which usually seems to revolve entirely around publishing papers.

at maximum of my artistic abilities as a stick figure,

and then I'm back to baseline by about lunch time.

A few days later, a paper might get rejected,

but somehow I just can't stop thinking about it.

even if another paper gets accepted the next day, well, that's nice,

but somehow I can't get that pesky rejection out of my head.

Why does a failure seem to stick in our minds

Together with my colleague Amber Boydstun in the Political Science Department,

this question of, "do our minds get stuck in the negatives?"

that there are different ways of thinking about things.

The same glass, the saying goes can be seen as half-full or half-empty.

There's a lot of research in the social sciences showing

that depending on how you describe the glass to people,

So if you describe the glass as half-full, this is called the gain frame,

because you're focusing on what's gained,

But if you describe the same glass as half-empty, a loss frame,

But we wondered what happens when you try to switch

from thinking about it one way to thinking about it another way.

or do they get stuck in one way of thinking about it?

Does one of these labels, in other words, tend to stick more in the mind?

Well, to investigate this question, we conducted a simple experiment.

We told participants in our experiment about a new surgical procedure,

and we randomly assigned them to one of two conditions.

For participants in the first condition, the first group,

we described the surgical procedure in terms of gains;

we described the procedure in terms of losses;

we're just focusing people's attention on the part of the glass that's full,

Perhaps unsurprisingly, people like the procedure

when it's described as having a 70% success rate,

when it's described as having a 30% failure rate.

"You know, you could think of this as a 30% failure rate."

And now they don't like it anymore; they've changed their minds.

We told participants in the second group,

"You know, you could think of this as a 70% success rate",

but unlike the first group, they stuck with their initial opinion;

they seemed to be stuck in the initial loss frame that they saw

about the current governor of an important state

who is running for re-election against his opponent.

and we described the current governor's track record to them in one of two ways.

We said that when the current governor took office,

statewide budget cuts were expected to affect of about 10,000 jobs,

that under the current governor's leadership

They like the current governor; they think he is doing a great job.

that under the current governor's leadership,

and they don't like the current governor; they think he's doing a terrible job.

we reframed the information in terms of losses,

and now they didn't like the current governor anymore.

we reframed the information in terms of gains,

but just like in the first study, this didn't seem to matter.

People in this group still didn't like the current governor.

TEDx】陷入負面情緒（以及如何擺脫困境）｜艾莉森-萊格伍德｜TEDxUCDavis｜TEDxUCDavis。 (【TEDx】Getting stuck in the negatives (and how to get unstuck) | Alison Ledgerwood | TEDxUCDavis)

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TEDx】陷入負面情緒（以及如何擺脫困境）｜艾莉森-萊格伍德｜TEDxUCDavis｜TEDxUCDavis。 (【TEDx】Getting stuck in the negatives (and how to get unstuck) | Alison Ledgerwood | TEDxUCDavis)

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