科学美国人60秒 SSS Partnered-Up Men More Attractive to Women
时间：2019-02-14 作者：英语课 分类：2017年Scientific American(二)月
It turns out the best looking thing on a man may be a good-looking woman.
Researchers report that women find a man they see with an attractive woman more desirable than unattached men. That’s according to a study in the journal Evolutionary 1 Psychology 2. [Christopher D. Rodeheffer, Randi P. Proffitt Leyva and Sarah E. Hill, Attractive Female Romantic Partners Provide a Proxy 3 for Unobservable Male Qualities: The When and Why Behind Human Female Mate Choice Copying]
Researchers had two groups of female college students rate photos of men—all of whom had first been rated as being of average attractiveness. The first group of 148 women was shown pictures of those men with an attractive female. The subjects were told that the women in the photos were either a girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, cousin or adopted sister. And the subjects rated the men with the girlfriends as more desirable than the men shown with partners described as being exes or relatives.
The second study group of 97 students were shown average looking men with an attractive woman who was described as definitely a girlfriend. And again the women rated the men with the good-looking gals 4 as more desirable than the single guys. Plus, the attached men were thought more likely to be more intelligent, trustworthy, humorous, wealthy and attentive 5.
Researchers deduced that the women probably assume partnered-up men must have those qualities of smarts and personality to be an appropriate match for a good-looking mate.
So, turns out that what many of us always suspected may be true—men look better when they’re a proven commodity.
—Erika Beras
- Life has its own evolutionary process.生命有其自身的进化过程。
- These are fascinating questions to be resolved by the evolutionary studies of plants.这些十分吸引人的问题将在研究植物进化过程中得以解决。
- She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
- He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
- You may appoint a proxy to vote for you.你可以委托他人代你投票。
- We enclose a form of proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting.我们附上委任年度大会代表的表格。
- Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals. 这时，吉姆手里提着一个锡皮桶，嘴中唱着“布法罗的女娃们”蹦蹦跳跳地从大门口跑出来。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
- An' dey thinks dey wants mousy lil gals wid bird's tastes an' no sense at all. 他们想要的是耗子般的小姑娘，胃口小得像雀子，一点儿见识也没有。 来自飘（部分）