科學美國人(翻譯)：COVID-19保持社會距離 2021.1.17

Welcome to another in our series of coronavirus episodes of Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on March 16, 2020. I’m Steve Mirsky.

歡迎來到科學美國人關于新型冠道病毒的2020年3月16日另一系列報道。我是史蒂夫·梅思基。

At this point in the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most of us have been asked to practice social distancing—that is, stay the hell away from each other. And it’s stressful.

在現在新型冠狀肺炎疫情時期，我們多數人要求保持一定的社會距離——也就是離對方遠一點。這讓會讓人產生壓力。

So I called Judy Moskowitz in Chicago. She’s a professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University who studies the psychological and physical effects of employing techniques to increase positive emotions—especially when you’re under stress.

所以我打電話給給芝加哥的朱迪·莫斯科維茨。她是美國西北大學醫學社會科學教授，研究運用技巧來增加積極情緒的心理和生理影響——尤其是當人們處于壓力狀態時。

Here are those eight things you can do that Judy Moskowitz and colleagues found can increase your positivity, lower your stress—and could even help your physical health:

朱迪·莫斯科維茨和同事們發現，以下八件事可以提高你的積極性，降低壓力，甚至可以幫助增強身體健康：

1. Recognizing a positive event each day

每天都要認識到一件積極的事情

2. Savoring that positive event and logging it in a journal or telling someone about it

品味那些積極的事情，然后記錄在日記里或者告訴別人

3. Starting a daily gratitude journal

開始每天寫感恩日記

4. Listing a personal strength each day and noting how you used this strength recently

每天列出一個自己的優點，并注意最近是如何利用這個優點的

5. Setting an attainable goal each day and noting your progress

每天設定一個可以實現的目標，并記錄你的進步

6. Reporting a relatively minor stressor each day, then listing ways in which the event can be positively reappraised. This can lead to increased positive affect in the face of stress

每天報告一個相對較小的壓力源，然后列出事件可以積極重新評估的方法。在面對壓力時，這會導致積極的影響

7. Understanding small acts of kindness can have a big impact on positive emotion. And practicing a small act of kindness each day

理解小的善舉可以對積極的情緒產生很大的影響。每天做一件小小的善事

8. Practicing mindfulness with a daily 10-minute breathing exercise, concentrating on the breath

通過每天10分鐘的呼吸練習專注力，專注于呼吸

That’s it for this episode. Get your science news at our Web site: www.ScientificAmerican.com. Where we’re bringing you the latest news and insights about the coronavirus, COVID-19. And if you want to take a break from the immersion in the pandemic, which is probably a good idea, we have a lot of other fascinating material up on our Web site.

今天的節目就到這里。請訪問我們的科學新聞網站www.ScientificAmerican.com。我們將為您帶來關于冠狀病毒COVID-19的最新消息和見解。如果你想暫時遠離流感大流行帶來的壓力，這可能是個不錯的辦法，因為我們的網站上有很多其他有趣的資料。