TED演讲:性格的迷思--你究竟是谁(1)

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I've had the opportunity over the last couple of days  在过去几天里，我有机会

of listening in on some of your conversations and watching you interact with each other. 倾听你们的交谈，观察你们的互动。

And I think it's fair to say, already, that there are 47 people in this audience, at this moment, 我想我已经可以大胆地说，此时此刻，在你们中间，有47个人，

displaying psychological symptoms I would like to discuss today.  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 gratuitous² and intrusive³, 我不会直接指出来，因为那样很没必要，也不礼貌，

I thought I would tell you a few facts and stories, in which you may catch a glimpse of yourself. 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,  我从事的是人格心理学研究，

which is part of a larger personality science which spans the full spectrum⁴, from neurons to narratives⁵. 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。

And what we try to do, in our own way, is to make sense of how each of us - each of you 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

is in certain respects, like all other people, like some other people and like no other person. 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。

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