来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论 第20集 第20集》
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Why not?为什么不是 -
Why do we overestimate their happiness?为什么我们高估了这些东西带来的幸福 -
And the technical term for this, by the way,这一现象的术语 -
is "Affective forecasting."叫做"幸福感预测" -
Again, this is Dan Gilbert's work这也是丹·吉尔伯特的研究成果 -
and the idea is we are bad at affective forecasting.他指出我们不善于做幸福感预测 -
That is, we are bad at predicting how happy or sad就是说我们不善于根据所发生的事情 -
we will be in the future based on what's happening to us.预测自己未来幸福与否 -
Why? Well, a couple of reasons.为什么 原因有几个 -
One thing is there's often a failure一个是人们经常无法 -
to appreciate the day-to-day irrelevance of certain events.意识到特定事件的日常无关性 -
So prior to the election--the election's happening tomorrow所以在选举前 选举明天举行