哪一張臉更吸引你？

哪一張臉更有吸引力?

If you chose the face on the left, you share the tastes of most heterosexual men. It is a composite face, or "morph", made from the faces of eight women with unusually small feet. The face on the right is a morph of eight women with unusually large feet.

如果你選擇了左邊的，就說明你和大部分異性戀男性的審美相同。而這張臉實際上是個“合成臉”，合成對象是八位“小腳”女性。與之相反，右邊的臉則是八位“大腳”女性的面孔而成。

It's quite a difference, isn't it? Women with smaller feet have prettier faces, at least according to the men who took part in this study. So do women with longer thigh bones and narrower hips.

差別確實很大。據(jù)研究結果顯示，在男性眼里，腳比較小的女性的容貌更加姣好。研究結果同樣顯示，股骨更長、臀部更窄的女性相貌也是更勝一籌。

Jeremy Atkinson, an evolutionary psychologist at the University at Albany, New York, and his colleagues measured hand length, foot length, thigh length and hip width on 60 white female college students. For each of 16 body-part measurements, he and his colleagues selected the eight women with the shortest lengths and the eight with the longest, and constructed morphs of their faces. These morphs were then rated for attractiveness by 77 heterosexual male students.

紐約奧爾巴尼一所大學的進化心理學教授杰里米-阿特金森和同事們測量了60位白人女大學生的手、腳、股骨的長度以及臀圍。然后在每一項測量結果中選擇8位測量結果最短以及8位測量結果最長的女生，再對他們的相貌分別進行合成。隨后，77位在校異性戀男生對這些照片的吸引力進行評判。

The men were three-and-a-half times as likely to pick the short-footed morph as more attractive, and almost 10 times as likely to say it was more feminine, Atkinson and his colleagues found. Similarly, they were more than 11 times as likely to pick the narrow-hipped morph as more attractive, and eight times as likely to choose the long-thighed morph.

結果發(fā)現(xiàn)，認為腳小女生的相貌合成照片更可愛的男生數(shù)目是持相反觀點男生數(shù)目的3.5倍。而認為腳小女生的合成照片更有“女人味”的男生數(shù)目則達到了反對者數(shù)目的將近10倍。同樣，認為窄臀女生的相貌合成照片更有魅力的男生是反對者數(shù)目的11倍，而認為長腿女生的合成照更好看的男生則為不同意見者數(shù)目的8倍。

Atkinson thinks men find these features attractive because they serve as markers of a healthy childhood. Biologists know that stress and poor nutrition during foetal development and puberty can affect sex hormone levels and cause earlier puberty.

阿特金森認為，男性之所以覺得具有這些特征的女性更美，是因為它們代表對方有一個健康的童年。此前生物學家指出，胎兒階段以及青少年階段壓力過大、營養(yǎng)不良會影響性激素水平，導致過早發(fā)育。

This can leave such women relatively short and stout, while those with a more benign childhood continue growing for longer, and attain a slenderer, more stereotypically feminine face and body, which most men find more attractive.

因此在不良環(huán)境成長起來的女性相對矮小、健壯，而擁有一個幸福童年的女性則長得更高，身材更苗條，面部特征以及身材比例更女性化，從而在男性眼中更有吸引力。

Notes:

earlier puberty ：早熟