And this is what positive psychology does and I hope this is what 1504 to some extent will help do.

这就是积极心理学的作用,我希望1504号课程在一定程度上会有帮助。

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Because positive psychology may mean that we are only focusing on the positive and what works, ignoring all the rest that are not.

因为积极心理学可能表示,我们只聚焦于积极的起作用的部分，忽略其余不起作用的。

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There's a lot of debate over how much is innate and what the character of the built-in mental systems are but there's nobody who doubts nowadays that a considerable amount for humans and for other animals is built-in.

尽管对于先天存在程度,以及内在心理系统所起的作用,还存在着很多的争论,然而如今的人们已经不再怀疑,先天因素在人类以及其他动物身上,所起到的重要作用。

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We like people who are honest, who are kind, who are smart, who are funny, but study after study finds more fundamental processes are also at work and here is a list of three of them.

我们喜欢诚实，善良，聪明，有趣的人，但一个又一个研究表明还有其他一些心理过程,起了作用，我来一一列举。

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