这是科学60秒听力的音频，主要讲述科学家利用实验表明，人在焦虑时，书写可帮助缓解焦虑症状。
Performance anxiety can be cripling. Entertainers who suffer from it come up with creative defenses. Bono has his purple shades. The indie rock singer Cat Power faces away from the audience. Others turn to more standard solutions like Xanax. But there might be a healthier quick fix: writing. Because new research reveals that writing about your specific worries just before a performance can reduce the risk of blowing it due to anxiety. The work appears in the journal Science. Researchers gave 20 students two math tests. The students did nothing special before the first test. But before the second test, students were told they’d receive money for high marks. Half of the students were then instructed to take 10 minutes and write down any concerns they had about the test. The other half sat quietly. Those who just sat waiting did 12 percent worse on the second test than on the first. But those who wrote about their fears showed a five percent improvment on the exam. Another part of the research found that writing in general didn’t work—it had to be about test-related concerns to triger the effect. So to write may prevent some wrongs. —Christie Nicholson