在实验中,部分受试者先听了一些过去的流行歌曲,并读了一些他们所喜爱歌曲的歌词,使他们产生怀旧情绪。相比起对照组,这些受试者更可能感觉“被爱”与“生活有意义”。
Then the researchers tested the effect in the other direction by trying to induce existential angst. They subjected some people to an essay by a supposed Oxford philosopher who wrote that life is meaningless because any single person's contribution to the world is "paltry, pathetic and pointless." Readers of the essay became more likely to nostalgize, presumably to ward off Sartrean despair.
接着,这些研究者尝试唤起受试者的焦虑,以测试怀旧在另一个极端的作用。他们让部分受试者阅读一篇由所谓牛津哲学家写作的文章,文章里讲述因为个人对世界的作用“微不足道、悲惨与无意义”,生活只是虚无。结果表明,文章的读者们更容易产生怀旧情绪,这也许是为了驱赶这种萨特(Sartre)式的绝望。
Moreover, when some people were induced to nostalgia before reading the bleak essay, they were less likely to be convinced by it. The brief stroll down memory lane apparently made life seem worthwhile, at least to the English students in that experiment. (Whether it would work with gloomy French intellectuals remains to be determined.)
另外,如果这些被试者的怀旧情绪被唤起后,再来阅读这篇讨论人生荒凉的文章时,他们比较不容易被作者说服。至少对接受实验的英国学生们而言,在记忆隧道中流连体验能让他们认识到生活的价值。(这是否能对忧郁的法国文人起作用则有待分解。)
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