Aristotle said that “happiness depends upon ourselves” and a new study suggests it is possible to physically grow a happier brain through practices like meditation (冥想). Although scientists have known which hormones (荷尔蒙) produce emotions like pleasure or desire, it has been unclear where the feeling of overall contentment and well-being originates from.
To find out, scientists asked 51 volunteers to rate their own happiness levels and then scanned their brains. Interestingly they discovered that an area of the brain called the precuneus (楔前叶) was larger in people who were happier. It suggests that happiness can be worked like a muscle.
What is the researchers’ attitude towards the finding?
A.Worried. | B.Doubtful. | C.Interested. | D.Optimistic. |
A warning from science
When you're bored of some very boring task, what do you do? If you're like many, the answer is a no brainer: You reach for your phone. If that sounds familiar, a new unpublished study has bad news.
The problem isn't taking a break. Previous studies show that we get more done overall if we take regular, short breaks. The problem is your phone. Dutch research shows most of us carry around a boredom-increasing machine in our pockets. To figure out the relationship between phones and boredom, A Dutch research team fixed an app on the phones of 83 volunteers to track how often they used their devices. They also asked these volunteers to keep diaries for three days, recording their level of tiredness and boredom every hour.
Equally unsurprising was the second finding:
This one study can't definitively say if either of these explanations is right, but the idea it communicates is clear. You think a glance at your phone is going to make you feel less bored, but it's actually going to make your brain feel more tired.
A.The researchers' first discovery was no shocker. |
B.The research team made guesses why this might be so. |
C.Reaching for your phone is likely to leave you feeling more bored. |
D.The more tired we are, the more likely we are to reach for our phones. |
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