双语调查：一见钟情源于性与自恋(图)

　　Love at first sight just sex and ego

　　Their eyes met across a crowded room. The party chatter ebbed away, and the music slowed. That first lovers' glaze is the staple of the romantic novelist, and scientists believe they have now revealed the true nature of its true attractive power.

　　According to new research, romance has very little do to with it. That "look" is all about sex and ego.

　　"It does seem to be a sort of narcissistic thing. People are attracted to people who are attracted to them," said Ben Jones in the Face Research Laboratory at the University of Aberdeen.

　　"It's really a very basic effect that we are all, at some level at least, aware of - which is that if you smile at people and you maintain eye contact, it makes you more attractive."

　　The team put together four different sets of digital images - women looking happy, women looking disgusted, men looking happy and men looking disgusted. In each case, the scientists made up pairs of images which were identical except that in one the person was looking directly at the camera and in the other their gaze was averted. Volunteers then rated the relative attractiveness of the images in each pair.

　　The team found that a direct stare is attractive only if the person giving it looks as if they like you. This preference was even higher if the face in the picture was of the opposite sex.

　　在满屋的人中，他们的目光相遇了。聚会上的闲聊声渐渐远去，音乐也慢了下来。一见钟情历来是浪漫小说家的素材，科学家认为，他们现在发现了吸引力的本质。但新的研究结果表明，浪漫关系根本与此无关。这种“目光”完全与性和自恋有关。

　　英国阿伯丁大学面部表情研究实验室的本·琼斯说：“看来这的确是一种自恋情绪。被别人吸引的人往往是对别人也有意思的人。”他说：“如何吸引他人的社交信号对你而言实际上是非常重要的。吸引你的人是被你吸引的人，这表明吸引力涉及的不仅是外表美。”

　　研究人员将四组不同的数码图像放在一起——表情幸福的妇女、看上去不高兴的妇女、表情快乐的男子、看上去令人厌恶的男子。每一次，科学家都将同样表情的照片放在一起，只是在其中的一张中，图中的人目光直视镜头，而另一张则目光转移了。志愿者对每一对照片的吸引力进行评估。结果，该小组发现，只有当这个人的目光看上去像是喜欢上你的时候，直视才具有吸引力。如果图中的人是异性的话，吸引力甚至会高得多。