外刊阅读 | 国家地理 | 期待下一次旅行吗？

扫码加关注   

精彩文章读不停        

星标我，不迷路！

Rights-holders bridle at the notion that America should reduce its protections to the level of other jurisdictions just to keep the tech business around; one describes it as unAmerican. 

版权持有者对美国为了维持科技产业而将其保护降低到其他司法管辖区的水平这一想法感到愤怒；有人认为这是非美国式的。

Here’s why planning a trip can help your mental health

这就是为什么计划旅行可以有益于你的心理健康

1

Some psychologists tout the mental benefits of vacationing somewhere new. One 2013 survey of 485 adults in the U.S. linked travel to enhanced empathy, attention, energy, and focus. Other research suggests that the act of adapting to foreign cultures may also facilitate creativity. But what about the act of planning a trip? Can we get a mental health boost from travel before we even leave home? Planning and anticipating a trip can be almost as enjoyable as going on the trip itself, and there’s research to back it up. A 2014 Cornell University study delved into how the anticipation of an experience (like a trip) can increase a person’s happiness substantially—much more so than the anticipation of buying material goods. 

Amit Kumar, one of the co-authors of the Cornell study and an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, explains that the benefits are less about obsessing over the finer points of an itinerary than they are about connecting with other people. One reason? Travelers “end up talking to people more about their experiences than they talk about material purchases,” he says. “Compared to possessions, experiences make for better story material.”“As humans, we spend a lot of our mental lives living in the future,” says Killingsworth, whose work centers on understanding the nature and causes of human happiness. “Our future-mindedness can be a source of joy if we know good things are coming, and travel is an especially good thing to have to look forward to.”

One reason Killingsworth thinks that planning travel can be such a positive experience? The fact that trips are temporary. “Since we know a trip has a defined start and end, our minds are prone to savor it, even before it’s started,” he says. “Sometimes people even prefer to delay good experiences like a trip so they can extend the period of anticipation.”There’s another reason travel planning can produce happiness: We often know enough about a trip to imagine it and look forward to it—but there’s also enough novelty and uncertainty to keep our minds interested.

“In a sense, we start to ‘consume’ a trip as soon as we start thinking about it,” Killingsworth says. “When we imagine eating gelato in a piazza in Rome or going water skiing with friends we don’t see as much as we’d like, we get to experience a version of those events in our mind.”

Our future-mindedness can be a source of joy if we know good things are coming, and travel is an especially good thing to have to look forward to.

如果我们知道好事即将到来，我们的未来意识会成为快乐的源泉，而旅行是一件特别值得期待的好事情。

Nothing illuminates a place or helps you plan a trip like a good map. 

翻译练习，欢迎大家文末留言打卡，下期推送文章公布答案哟，一起阅外刊学英语吧！

获取完整版PDF 下载后及时转存：

网盘链接：https://pan.quark.cn/s/e79e82d75f49

点击下方链接查看往期文章 ↓ ↓ ↓记得点关注哟

扫码关注我的视频号

分享，收藏，点赞与在看，至少我要拥有一个吧↓↓↓