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经济学家能从语言学家那里学到什么？行为经济学家基思·陈介绍了他的研究中发现的奇妙关联：没有区分将来时态的语言——“明天下雨”而不是“下明天的雨”——跟储蓄比例有很强的相关性。
v. 探险，探测，探究
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- Now how can we think about health behaviors to think about savings?
- 我们能将健康相关的行为比作储蓄行为么？
- Well, think about smoking, for example. Smoking is in some deep sense negative savings.
- 例如，吸烟这个事情，吸烟可以看作反向的储蓄。
- If savings is current pain in exchange for future pleasure, smoking is just the opposite.
- 如果储蓄是增加当下的痛苦增加未来的快感，那么吸烟的效果正好相反。
- It's current pleasure in exchange for future pain.
- 吸烟用未来的痛苦换取当下的快感。
- What we should expect then is the opposite effect.
- 我们假设吸烟跟语言时态的关系应该跟储蓄的关系相反。
- And that's exactly what we find.
- 我们的统计支持了我们的推断。
- Futureless language speakers are 20 to 24 percent less likely
- 语言没有区分将来时态的家庭成员相比而言
- to be smoking at any given point in time compared to identical families,
- 在任何时间段中吸烟的可能性相比都要少20%到24%，
- and they're going to be 13 to 17 percent less likely to be obese by the time they retire,
- 在他们退休的时候超重的可能性相比少13%到17%，
- and they're going to report being 21 percent more likely to have used a condom in their last sexual encounter.
- 在最后一次性行为中使用安全套的概率要高21%。
- I could go on and on with the list of differences that you can find.
- 我可以这么一直不停地列举下去。
- It's almost impossible not to find a savings behavior for which this strong effect isn't present.
- 很难找到语言时态特征对于储蓄行为没有影响的实例。
- My linguistics and economics colleagues at Yale and I are just starting to do this work
- 我和在耶鲁的的语言学同事和经济学同事刚刚开始这项研究，
- and really explore and understand the ways that these subtle nudges
- 探索和理解每次我们说话的时候
- cause us to think more or less about the future every single time we speak.
- （语言）对于我们的未来的轻微的影响。
- Ultimately, the goal, once we understand how these subtle effects can change our decision making,
- 最终的目标是，一旦我们理解了这些微妙的效果是如何影响到我们的决策的，
- we want to be able to provide people tools so that they can consciously make themselves better savers
- 我们希望可以为人们提供更好的工具，让他们在未来
- and more conscious investors in their own future. Thank you very much.
- 理性的存钱，理性的投资。非常感谢。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| explore | [iks'plɔ:] | 联想记忆 | ||
| encounter | [in'kauntə] | |||
| negative | ['negətiv] | 联想记忆 | ||
| understand | [.ʌndə'stænd] | |||
| linguistics | [liŋ'gwistiks] | 联想记忆 | ||
| ultimately | ['ʌltimitli] | |||
| subtle | ['sʌtl] | |||
| impossible | [im'pɔsəbl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| identical | [ai'dentikəl] | |||
| current | ['kʌrənt] | 联想记忆 |
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