早上跑步5公里,午餐吃完就加了块芝士蛋糕;骑自行车绿色出行一周,周末就开着大排量的车去郊区游玩。在我们无意识的情况下,有些好事却成为了做坏事的通行证。
Self-licensing is the unconscious tendency to allow yourself to do something bad after you have done something good.
“自我纵许指做了一些好事之后会无意识地允许自己做点不好的事。
Imagining yourself as “doing good can sometimes lead to bad things. You eat more at Thanksgiving because you went to the gym in the morning. The “good action somehow licenses the “bad action, because you have a self-image as a healthy person.
觉得自己“在做好事有时会导致一些不好的事。感恩节你吃的比之前多,因为那天早晨你去了趟健身房。“好的的行为有时会成为“坏行为的通行证,因为你已经树立了一个健康的自我形象。
It's what many diet experts say may be behind why so many of us fall off the diet rails on our “cheat days.
节食专家称这种“自我纵许的心理正是我们很多人在节食的过程中偶有几天“放纵偷懒的背后原因。
Washington Post staff writer Michael Rosenwald described the following everyday examples of self-licensing behavior:“We drink Diet Coke – with Quarter Pounders and fries at McDonald's. We go to the gym – and ride the elevator to the second floor. We install tankless water heaters – then take longer showers. We drive SUVs to see Al Gore's speeches on global warming.
《华盛顿邮报》撰稿人迈克尔·罗森沃德列出了一些日常生活中“自我纵许的例子:“我们喝着健怡可乐,同时在麦当劳吃大汉堡和薯条。我们去健身房,然而上二楼都要坐电梯。我们安装即热式热水器,然后洗澡花的时间更长了。我们开着SUV去听艾尔·戈尔的全球变暖演讲。
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