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Just like positive psychology does not say "let's exclude " what's not working; let's exclude study of pathology".

就像积极心理学不是说，排除不可行的事,排除病理研究。

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Second reason for having positive psychology's field of study and focusing on what works and focusing on research in happiness,relationships and wellbeing is because happiness does not spontaneously rise when take unhappiness away.

第二个研究积极心理学的原因,研究可行的事和,研究快乐，人际关系，幸福的原因,是因为幸福不会因为驱除了忧愁,而自动增长。

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I mean, if you do the--If you look at the results for the study, it turns out that there is an association as bias to view white Americans as positive and African Americans as negative but it shows up in half a second difference.

如果你看这些研究的结果，你会发现人们有一种偏见,把白人和积极的意义联系在一起,把黑人与消极的意义联系在一起,你只有看这半秒的差别，才能发现这种偏见。

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So we talked about changing ourselves, how it's possible the "growing-tip" statistics which is the second significant idea within research in positive psychology: " first significant idea is "let's study what works" " the second significant idea is "let's study what works best".

我们讨论过改变自己，为什么成长尖端统计学,会是积极心理学研究中的,第二个重要理念：,第一个重要理念是“研究可行的事“,第二个重要理念是“研究最优秀的个体。

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The reason why we need positive psychology is to shift the pendulum from the 21:1 ratio that we have today: for every one study on depression or anxiety, we have 21 studies on-- sorry, for one study on happiness or wellbeing, we have 21 studies on depression and anxiety.

我们需要积极心理学是为了改变,现在的21比1这个比率：,每有一项关于抑郁或焦虑的研究，就有21项，对不起，应该是每有一项关于快乐或幸福的研究，就有21项关于抑郁或焦虑的研究。

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