They measured each roommate's tendency towards negative thinking.

研究者们估量了每个室友的消极思维倾向的程度。

And you start looking for ways to validate this negative thinking.

然后你开始寻找方法来验证这种消极的想法。

A study found that negative thinking can be contagious in some cases.

有研究发现消极思维在很多情况下会传染。

Reading, like exercise, offers a safe, healthy and productive replacement for negative thinking.

阅读和锻炼一样， 可以安全、健康且富有成效地替代消极思维。

Like I was tellin' her earlier, look, you can eradicate negative thinking from your life.

就像我之前告诉她的那样，你可以消除生活中的消极想法。

Learn to be less hostile by changing some of your attitudes and negative thinking.

通过改变你的某些看法和消极思想，学会对事物不再抱有那么强烈的敌视态度。

That negative thinking, learned helplessness, self-blame, and over-thinking can feed off itself and basically smother the joy out of the brain, eventually creating a vicious self-fulfilling cycle of negative thinking.

消极思维、 习得性无助、自责和过度思考会自行滋生， 基本上扼杀大脑的快乐， 最终形成消极思维的自我实现的恶性循环。