國(guó)家地理:移植的臉如何改變了一名女子的生活(3)
Take a moment to look in a mirror. What do you see? Most of us would answer, "Myself."
花點(diǎn)兒時(shí)間照照鏡子，你看到了什么？我們大多數(shù)人會(huì)回答“我自己”。
My. Self. Our faces are the outer image we attach to our inner sense of self, to who we are and where we fit in the world. Faces root us in our culture, in the rituals and rules about how we present ourselves and how we see others. In some cultures, faces are veiled and hidden. Other cultures draw attention to faces with displays of tattoos, piercings, and scarification. In the contemporary world, faces are often a blank canvas to be manipulated with cosmetic surgery, injections, and intricate makeup techniques learned on YouTube. If we allow them to age, our faces will tell our life story. They connect us to the past in our ancestors and to the future in our children.
我們的臉代表著外在的形象，是我們內(nèi)在的自我意識(shí)，可以讓我們知道自己是誰(shuí)，以及我們?cè)谶@個(gè)世界上的位置。臉孔根植于我們的文化中，根植于我們?nèi)绾握宫F(xiàn)自我和如何看待他人的儀式和規(guī)則中。在某些文化中，臉上需要蒙著面紗隱藏起來(lái)。其他文化通過(guò)展示臉上的紋身、穿孔和劃痕來(lái)吸引人們的注意力。在當(dāng)今世界，臉通常是一張空白的畫布，通過(guò)整容手術(shù)、注射和在YouTube上學(xué)習(xí)的復(fù)雜化妝技巧來(lái)操控。如果我們讓它們變老，我們的臉就會(huì)講述我們的人生故事。它們將我們與祖先的過(guò)去和孩子的未來(lái)聯(lián)系起來(lái)。
At the simplest level of identity, our faces function as our passport photo to the rest of the world. But they're also the way others seek to know us more deeply, to discover who we are behind that photo. "Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self," wrote Harvard Medical School psychologist Nancy Etcoff in her book Survival of the Prettiest.
在最簡(jiǎn)單的身份認(rèn)同層面上，我們的臉就像護(hù)照照片一樣向世界展示我們自己。但它們也是其他人更深入了解我們的媒介，去發(fā)現(xiàn)照片背后、真正意義上的我們。哈佛醫(yī)學(xué)院心理學(xué)家南希·埃特考夫在她的書《Survival of the Prettiest》中寫道:“外表是自我最公開的部分，這是我們的圣禮，可見(jiàn)的自我，在這個(gè)世界上被認(rèn)為是無(wú)形的、內(nèi)在的自我鏡子?！?/p>
Whether the emotions we express with our faces are evolutionary adaptations or learned social behaviors is a topic hotly debated among social scientists. Charles Darwin argued in 1872 that facial expressions displaying some emotions are universal adaptations. In the late 1960s the psychologist Paul Ekman concluded that Darwin was correct. Human beings, across cultures, recognize specific facial displays associated with basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise.
我們用面部表情表達(dá)的情感是進(jìn)化適應(yīng)還是后天習(xí)得的社會(huì)行為，這是社會(huì)科學(xué)家激烈爭(zhēng)論的話題。查爾斯·達(dá)爾文曾在1872年提出過(guò)這樣的觀點(diǎn)：面部表情顯示出的某些情緒具有普遍適應(yīng)性。20世紀(jì)60年代末，心理學(xué)家保羅·?？寺贸鼋Y(jié)論，認(rèn)定達(dá)爾文的觀點(diǎn)是正確的。不同文化背景下的人類都能識(shí)別出與基本情緒相關(guān)的特定面部表情，比如憤怒、厭惡、恐懼、喜悅、悲傷和驚訝等。
