Given that many readers of self-help books that encourage positive self-statements are likely to suffer from low self-esteem, they may be worse than useless.

鉴于许多自助书籍的读者本身就饱受自信不足的折磨，一味地鼓励他们形成积极的自我评价只能是有害无益。

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Dr Wood suggests that positive self-statements cause negative moods in people with low self-esteem because they conflict with those people's views of themselves.

由此伍德博士认为在自尊心较差的人群中，积极自我评价会导致消极情绪的产生，这是由于两种观点在他们心中打架造成的。

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Self-help books through the ages, including Norman Vincent Peale's 1952 classic, "the Power of positive Thinking", have encouraged people with low self-esteem to make positive self-statements.

这些年，励志书籍，包括诺曼·文森特·皮尔1952年的经典之作《积极思维的力量》，激励了自尊心低的人们做出积极的自我肯定。

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When positive self-statements strongly conflict with self-perception, she argues, there is not mere resistance but a reinforcing of self-perception.

ECONOMIST: Positive thinking's negative results

Dr Wood suggests that positive self-statements cause negative moods in people with low self-esteem because they conflict with those people's views of themselves.

ECONOMIST: Positive thinking's negative results

Given that many readers of self-help books that encourage positive self-statements are likely to suffer from low self-esteem, they may be worse than useless.

ECONOMIST: Positive thinking's negative results