趣聽(tīng)精彩世界：消極的心態(tài)也有優(yōu)勢(shì)

哥倫比亞廣播公司:工作中,你是比較具有積極心態(tài)還是消極心態(tài)呢?大多數(shù)人可能都認(rèn)為,還是應(yīng)該具有積極的心態(tài).但是,哥倫比亞廣播公司的這篇報(bào)道稱,具有消極心態(tài)的人其實(shí)也有著自己的優(yōu)勢(shì),這樣的人更容易把精力集中于發(fā)展一項(xiàng)專業(yè)技能.

消極的心態(tài)

CBS News: People with negative attitudes may not be the most popular folks at the office, but they may have an unexpected advantage when it comes to developing expertise at work.

Researchers made the discovery by dividing people into two groups to study: "likers," or people found to have positive dispositional attitudes in a personality test, and "haters," or those with negative dispositional attitudes.

Then they studied how each group spent its time. In one study, participants recorded all the activities they did in a week, and in another study, participants used a free response time survey.