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Holiday Letters' "Have-Done" Lists Fail to Engage Emotionally

节日信件列出全年事件并不能让收信者从情感上被吸引

By now you may have written, or received, one of those epic holiday letters many people still send. “Dear Friends and Family, It’s been a busy year. We lost our beloved Spot…but we finally fixed the toilet!” Well, if you write these annual reports, take a look at your latest. Because scientists at North Dakota State University say that the style of these missives may reveal as much as their content.

你现在或许还在写出或是收到那些“史诗般”的节日信件，许多人也一直在给亲友发这种信。“亲爱的朋友或家人，今年真是繁忙的一年。我们丢掉了心爱的工作……但我们最终修好了马桶。”那么，如果你在写这种年度报告，就留意一下你最近的情况吧。据北达科他州州立大学的科学家们称，这些全面罗列的风格或许会同其中的内容揭示同样多的信息。

The researchers have analyzed more than 1,200 holiday letters written over the past decade. Many follow the one-person-per-paragraph approach to storytelling. Others are formatted to look like newspaper articles. One was even written from the perspective of a deceased pet, reporting on the family’s activities from its resting place: sitting, stuffed, in the den.

研究人员对过去十年间的1200封节日信件进行了分析。许多人遵循着一个人的故事用一段来叙述的叙事方式写信，另一些的叙事风格有如报刊文章。有一封信甚至从一只已故宠物的视角来描述这个家庭里的活动——从它起居、进食还有安乐窝等它休息时所在的各个角度来描写。

More than 80 percent of the letters provide a bullet-point list of the year’s happenings. But only 5 percent talk about how major events—births, death, weddings, divorce—affected the writers personally. Such reflection is key to living life to the fullest, say the scientists in a paper published last year in the Journal of Happiness Studies.

百分之八十以上的信件都为这一年发生的事情提供了点句列表标记。但只有百分之五点信件提及一些重大事件——如小孩诞生、亲友逝世、结婚离婚等这些大事——对写信者个人的影响。去年在《幸福研究杂志》（荷兰）上刊登文章的科学家们说，这些回顾是让生活充实的关键。

So brag about your kids or complain about your bunions. Because there’s more to a good story than who, what, when, where. And how.

因此，多夸夸你的孩子或抱怨一下你的拇趾囊炎肿，因为这可比写作五要素（4W1H）更能让一个好故事出色动人。

—Karen Hopkin

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