Optimists are said to experience a higher level of both physical and mental functioning than their pessimist counterparts.

研究者认为乐观的人与悲观的人比较，启身体和精神机能两者达到较高水平。

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And there's also,of course,in each one of our cases, there's these higher mental cognitive functions that I've been calling the person functioning, there's the B-functions and there's the P-functions.

当然对我们来说，还有更高级的精神上的认知功能,我称之为人格功能，所以就有生理功能和人格功能。

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