Bouncy Gait Improves Mood
輕快的步伐可調節情緒 擁有好心情
This is Scientific American's 60 Second Mind. I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute?
這裡是由《科學美國人》出品的頭腦60秒，我是克里斯蒂・尼科爾森。聽一分鐘？
A good mood may put a spring in your step. But the opposite can work too: purposefully putting a spring in your step can improve your mood. That's the finding from a study in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
好心情可能會使你的步伐有著春天般的活力，但知道嗎反之亦然：有意識地使步調快活能改善情緒。該發現出自《行為療法與實驗精神病學雜誌》的一項研究。
Scientists showed volunteers a list of negative and positive words, like afraid and anxious, or sunny and pretty. Then the subjects had to walk on a treadmill while watching a gauge that moved left or right.
科學家向志願者展示了一列積極詞彙和消極詞彙的列表，比如害怕和焦慮、陽光和美麗。然後志願者們必須一邊在跑步機上走，一邊看著一個向左或向右移動的計量儀。
But here's what the participants did not know: if their stance-for example, slumped shoulders-seemed to indicate a down mood the gauge moved to the left. If their walk was more upbeat, say with swinging arms, the gauge moved to the right. The scientists asked half the subjects to adjust their walking style until the gauge moved to the right, and the other half so that the gauge went the left. Each group quickly learned what adjustments moved the gauge in the desired direction.
但志願者們並不知道：如果他們的姿態暗示的是消極的情緒，比如垂肩，計量儀就會移到左邊;如果他們的步調很歡快，比如擺動手臂，計量儀就會移到右邊。科學家要求一半志願者調整他們的行走方式直到計量儀移到右邊，另一半則反之。每一組都很快了解到什麼樣的調整能使計量儀移動到預期的那一邊。
Then the subjects had to write down as many words from the list that they remembered. And those who walked with a depressed gait recalled more negative terms, while the ones who were asked to walk in a more upbeat style came up with many more positive words.
然後志願者被要求儘可能多地寫下他們記住的列表中的單詞。那些走路步調消極的人回憶起了更多消極詞彙，而那些走路步調歡快的人回憶起了更多積極詞彙。
Past research has shown that depressed people tend to remember negative words and happier people tend to remember happy words. So this study suggests that the way we walk influences our mental state. And that we can change our state by changing our gait.
過去的研究顯示了，沮喪的人更傾向於記憶消極詞彙，快樂的人則更傾向於記憶積極詞彙。這項研究表明，人們走路的方式會影響其精神狀態。因而我們可以通過改變步調來改善心情。
hanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60 Second Mind. I'm Christie Nicholson.
感謝收聽由《科學美國人》出品的頭腦60秒，我是克里斯蒂・尼科爾森。
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