英語長文・和訳問題トレーニング 140015（さくら教育研究所）

　Research suggests that athletes who win bronze medals are actually happier than those who win silver medals.  The reason for this has to do with the way in which the athletes think about their performance.  The silver medallists focus on the notion that, if they had performed slightly better, then they would perhaps have won a gold medal.  In contrast, the bronze medallists focus on the thought that if they had performed slightly worse, then they wouldn't have won anything at all.  Psychologists refer to our ability to imagine what might have happened, rather than what actually did happen, as "counter-factual thinking."