According to the Daily Telegraph on January 7, marrying someone much younger only makes you seem older in the eyes of everyone else, shows an academic study。

　　When someone see a mature man with a woman half his age, they estimate him to be much older than it really is because of the obvious gap, said the study。

　　Psychologists from Jena University in Germany discovered that a person's perceived age varies depending on the people they are with。

　　They carried out a series of research projects called Person Perception to see how people estimate the age of others。

　　If they see a person on their own then most observers are fairly good as estimating that person's age. And the same applies if there is a group where everyone is around the same age。

　　But if most of a group are old and one person is young, that difference is exaggerated and those trying to guess the individual's age are "consistently wrong" said the research。

　　The findings have been published in the journal Vision Research。

　　据英国《每日电讯报》1月7日报道，一项科学研究显示，和比自己年轻很多的人结婚，只会在别人眼里显得更老。

　　研究表示，当人们看到一个成熟的男人和只有他一半年龄的女性在一起时，因为年龄差距较大，这个男人往往要显得比实际年龄更大一些。

　　德国耶拿大学的心理学家发现，人们的外表年龄往往随着身边的人有所变化。

　　研究人员进行了一系列“年龄直觉”的研究项目，观察人们如何判断其他人的年龄。

　　如果被调查者是单独一人，大部分观察者都能相对准确地猜测出他的年龄。如果一个小组的成员年龄相仿，这一原理同样适用。

　　但是，研究显示如果一个小组大部分成员都比较年长，而一个人较年轻，年龄猜测的准确率明显下降。猜测者估计的年龄要和被猜测者的实际年龄"相差万里"。

　　《视觉研究》杂志已经发表了这一研究结果。