“英国人因为天气不好，所以见到的阳光少，所以相对比较忧郁。"这是真的吗？

一个相关的问题是一个人每天平均需要见多长时间的阳光？强度多大的阳光？从这个角度看生活在什么地方更好？

【桂武磊的回答(5票)】:

雾都重庆人民表示...仙人板板，瞎子拉琴---瞎扯

【Iris Cao的回答(3票)】:

纯属扯淡 那是多少年前的事了。现在人家那儿空气质量好着呢。有太阳的时候晴空万里，阴天的时候也呼吸顺畅。相对高纬度的北部人民甚至被南部人民更好客友好。因此，一、天气并非不好，二、见到的阳光也不少，三、他们并不忧郁，四、天气、阳光少与忧郁之间并非直接因果关系，也只是导致的因素之一吧，并且影响的结果因人而异。

天朝人民才是尼玛生活在污染环境Pm2.5肆虐的愁云惨淡中，向各位在Hard模式下生存的人民致敬，包括现在的我自己。

【卡卡的回答(1票)】:

帝都也天气不好，空气糟糕，阳光很少；帝都人民也心情抑郁，食欲不振，无心上班。

但是后者的原因貌似不是前者，而是……你懂的。

【刘瑞博的回答(0票)】:

以上问题纯属扯淡。。。。我有两个英国朋友，他们表示大英帝国子民除了伦敦很少见到雾的，另外他们说忧郁的是意大利人~~~

【徐志的回答(0票)】:

虽然英国首都伦敦被称为“雾都”，那是因为以前伦敦人大部分用煤作燃料，再加上伦敦的地理环境气候所以才多雾的，现在加强环境治理后，就算去伦敦其实环境也挺好的。英国其他地方天气也都还是不错的。而且因为天气对一个民族的性格有影响这种话有点太不客观了……不过他们英国人见面喜欢聊天气倒是真的……

【张钰琳的回答(0票)】:

推荐阅读这篇果壳问答：天气真能影响人的心情吗？

我们应该承认天气有可能会对我们的情绪产生影响，但这种影响是因人而异的。而且，在众多影响心情的因素中，天气通常不是最主要的那个。

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【张子晗的回答(1票)】:

1、“英国天气不好”这个说法有待商榷。以前被称为是雾都确实是因为污染的问题，现在治理了解决了，完全不是雾都，而且因为它比较狭长，有点污染，一阵海风就能从东吹到西，散得很快。但是，即使不是雾都，阴绵绵的天气也是个常态，一连一个星期见不到太阳也是常有的，再下下雨，确实不亮堂。有次在广州遇到一个英国人，他倒确实也是因为这里每天太阳充足，而不打算回英国。

2、“英国人忧郁”，与其说他们忧郁，不如用保守、谦虚、绅士等等这些词汇。如果你看过他们的“古装片”，你就能明白他们的性格中安静的地方很多，即使反对什么事情，也不会跳起来跟你嚷嚷，并且很在乎谈话的技巧，还舍得吃着哑巴亏。同时，有文化积淀的地方的人善于思考，思想有深度，会不会表象起来，也像是忧郁？

【曾举臣的回答(0票)】:

Do grey skies make you blue or is it summer that gets your goat?

Here in the UK the weather feels depressing.

We're in the middle of winter in the northern hemisphere and it's cold and we're being battered by gales and torrential rain. The sun, even when it does show its face, is setting at 4pm. It's no wonder people in the street look fed up.

But according to most of the research on the connection between weather and mood, they shouldn't be. I've covered these highly counter-intuitive findings before and the title of that article sums it up: Weather Has Little Effect on Mood.

When you tell people this, though, they don't believe it. Most of us intuitively think the weather has quite a strong effect on our mood. Many assume that the rain and cold weather depresses us and sun and warmth perks us up.

So why don't we see this effect in the research?

That's the question a new study by Klimstra et al. (2011) tries to answer with a group of adolescents and their mothers. They tested the idea that although our reactivity to weather averages out across the whole population, there are large differences between individuals.

And it turns out this is true. In fact Klimstra et al. found four distinct groups:

1. Unaffected: about half the people in their study fell into this group. For these people it didn't matter that much whether it was raining or sunny, hot or cold, their mood was mostly unaffected.
2. Summer lovers: here's the group you'd expect. For these people, their mood improved with less rain, more sun and higher temperatures (15% of adolescents and 30% of their mothers fell into this category).
3. Summer haters: here's a group of people you hear less about.  These were the exact opposite of the summer lovers so they were happier when there was more rain, less sun and lower temperatures. Summer haters were more prevalent amongst the adolescents (27%) than their mothers (12%).
4. Rain haters: this group's mood didn't change with the temperature, sunshine or the wind; they just hated the rain. These guys were in the minority, making up 8% of adolescents and 12% of their mothers.

This helps explain why studies keep finding that weather doesn't have much effect on mood: it's because we're different and these differences were mostly being averaged out.

Most surprising are not the group of winter SADs (seasonally affected disorder) but the summer SADs. We hear a lot about the former and nothing about the latter, but from this study the summer SADs look like a significant group of people, especially amongst adolescents.

There was also an association between how the adolescents and their mothers reacted to the weather. This suggests your weather type may well run in the family. If you're a summer hater, it's likely your parents are too. 原文引自http://www.spring.org.uk

 

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