囧研究：長(zhǎng)得丑連小孩都不理你

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一份發(fā)表于《心理學(xué)前沿》雜志的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，孩子和成年人一樣會(huì)本能地更信任長(zhǎng)相好看的人而非缺少魅力的人。

For the study, a team of Chinese researchers recruited groups of 8-, 10-, and 12-year-olds, with 33 to 34 kids in each group (a similarly sized group of college students served as a control). These pint-size volunteers viewed a series of 200 unfamiliar faces, categorizing each one as trustworthy, untrustworthy, or neither; a month later, they came back to view the same faces, this time rating them on attractiveness.

為了開(kāi)展本項(xiàng)研究，中國(guó)研究團(tuán)隊(duì)招募了一群8歲、10歲和12歲大的孩子，每組33至34人(數(shù)量相當(dāng)?shù)拇髮W(xué)生組成控制組)。小志愿者們觀看了一系列200個(gè)不熟悉的面孔，將它們分為“值得信任的”、“不值得信任的”和“無(wú)法判斷的”;一個(gè)月之后，他們又回來(lái)看了同樣的面孔，這次根據(jù)魅力值為它們劃分等級(jí)。

Across age groups, the two judgments were closely linked — the more attractive faces, in general, were also considered more trustworthy. It's one more in a pile of similar findings about how kids make appearance-based judgments: Past research has shown, for example, that preschool-age children seek out more attractive peers as playmates, and that they prefer to rely on better-looking people as sources of information. Even kids as young as 3 can read a person's face to make assumptions about their character.

不論在哪個(gè)年齡組，這兩項(xiàng)判斷都是密切相關(guān)的——更有魅力的面孔一般會(huì)被評(píng)定為更值得信任。在此之前，已有大量類(lèi)似實(shí)驗(yàn)，研究小孩子如何依據(jù)外表作出判斷：比如，過(guò)去的研究證明，學(xué)齡前兒童會(huì)尋找更有魅力的同齡人作玩伴，而且他們更喜歡依賴長(zhǎng)相更好看的人作為信息來(lái)源;甚至連3歲小孩都能通過(guò)看人臉來(lái)猜測(cè)別人的性格。

"The 'beauty is good' impression may gradually develop through children's daily experiences in witnessing the association between attractive individuals and trustworthy behaviors," the authors wrote.

研究人員寫(xiě)道：“在孩子的日常經(jīng)驗(yàn)中，他們會(huì)目睹有魅力的個(gè)人與值得信任的行為之間的聯(lián)系，而‘美是好的’這種印象也就逐漸形成了。”

As we have previously noted, beautiful people have it easier in many ways: They tend to be better paid, more confident, and better liked — even by the tiniest of humans.

正如我們此前提到過(guò)的，漂亮的人在許多方面都會(huì)過(guò)得更容易一些：他們往往薪資更高，更有信心，更討人喜歡——甚至連最小的孩子都更喜歡他們。