"When I'm sick and I look terrible and that person is right next to me telling me I look beautiful (while) holding up my hair when I am puking my brains out in the toilet."

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

When you start laughing at somebody you think of them as less of a person and we'll get to that a little bit more when we talk about laughter.

当你嘲笑别人时,他们在你眼中的人性就会减少,我们以后再深入探讨幽默,等我们讲到笑的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And this is called the Pratfall Effect, that our liking for the competent person grows when they make a mistake, when they do something embarrassing, when they have a failure experience. Okay?

心理学上，这叫“失态效应，我们对有能力之人的喜爱之情再次升华,当他们犯错，出洋相，经历很衰的事情时？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

What I would like you to do is to remember this and four years from now, when most of you are ready to graduate, if that one person in here would email me okay?! and let me know who it is, okay?

我希望你们,记得做的是四年后，当你们大部份人准备毕业时，那人能写封电邮,让我知道他／她的大名？

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The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.

这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西

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Is there something immoral about removing the organs during Phase D when the person is dead and the only thing that's still alive is the body?

在D阶段人已死亡只有肉体存活时,摘除器官是否不道德？

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