If one of your goals is to lose weight, you will also need to change how and what you eat.

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You'll be biased to put extra weight on the cases that support your theory and diminish cases that refute it.

你的偏向令你更注重于,那些证明你的看法的个案上,而无视驳倒你的看法的个案。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Take your own weight in your mind and multiply it by three.

想一下你们自己的体重,然后再乘以三

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We started out with just a simple idea: that you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket and if you had a lot of independent stocks you would want to just weight them equally.

我们从一个简单的想法开始：,你不想把所有的鸡蛋放入一个篮子里,如果你有许多互相独立的股票,你给它们相同的权重。

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Most everybody understands the basic concept of what a calorie is: you eat food, it delivers something that can affect your weight, and that something is divided into units called calories.

大部分人所理解的基本定义是,人们吃食物,其中某些物质影响体重,这种物质划分为小单位后称之为卡路里

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

As we'll discuss in the class, and most of you probably know this, your body weight is a function of how many calories you take in and how many calories you burn off through metabolic processes but also physical activity.

我们将会讲到,而且你们中的大部分人可能也知道,你的体重随着卡路里的摄取量,和代谢中的消耗量而变化,还跟肢体活动有关

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选