Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick, hard-wired responses.
科学家发现，尽管我们容易产生迅速的过度反应，但如果花点时间思考我们可能会如何反应，就能减少甚至消除我们快速、本能反应带来的负面影响。
Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms; if we are judging whether someone is dangerous, our brains and bodies are hard-wired to react very quickly, within milliseconds.
即时决策可以是重要的防御机制；当我们判断某人是否危险时，我们的大脑和身体天生就会在毫秒之内迅速反应。
But snap decisions in reaction to rapid stimuli aren’t exclusive to the interpersonal realm.
但对快速刺激的即时决策并不局限于人际交往领域。
John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly “thin slice” information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in “thick sliced” long-term study.
婚姻专家约翰·戈特曼解释说，只有当我们把这种即时反应建立在长期深入研究的基础上，我们才能可靠地快速‘薄切’信息。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。