科學家最懂女人心:女人的眼淚和性慾大綱

Men who sniffed real tears became less sexually aroused than those who sniffed saline, according to the researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Edith Wolfson Medical Center in Israel.

據以色列魏茨曼科學研究所以及伊迪斯·沃爾芬森醫學中心的研究人員稱，聞到了真實眼淚味道的男人與嗅過鹽水的男性，相比較而言，對性的慾望會有所降低。

In the study,two women ageing 30 and 31 watched sad movies by themselves and placed vials beneath their eyes to collect teardrops. Their tears were collected one milliliter at a time' and deposited onto small pads that were attached beneath men’s noses, so they could continuously sniff the sadness.

在該項研究中，兩名年齡分別爲30,31歲的女子各自觀看悲情電影，同時將小水瓶放到她們的眼睛下方以便收集眼淚。當眼淚聚滿1毫升之後，研究人員便將其滴人小墊並置於男性鼻子下端，因此他們可以連續不斷地嗅到“悲傷的氣息”。

Then 24 male participants, whose mean age was 27, were shown emotionally ambiguous photographs of women and asked to rate the faces’sadness and their attractiveness. The faces appeared less sexually attractive after sniffing real tears,according to the study. The researchers also learned the men experienced a drop in testosterone.

接下來，24名平均年齡爲27歲的男性受試者，在觀看了一組研究人員出示的表情暖昧的女性照片後，被要求要按照面孔的悲傷程度和魅力對照片進行排名。研究發現，男性在聞過真實眼淚的味道後，那些面孔就變得不那麼有吸引力了。此外，研究人員還了解到這些男性體內的翠丸激素也因此出現了下降。

As a matter of fact, Israel scientists have expected tears’chemical signals to triggers empathy or sadness, but that didn't happen-women's tears just dampen men’s sexual desire. Some researchers believe this phenomenon evolved to protect emotionally vulnerableg women from male aggression.

其實，以色列科學家們本來預期眼淚中的化學物質可以引起受試者的移情或悲傷心理，然而事實並非如此—女人的眼淚只是抑制住了男人們的性慾渴望。一些研究人員相信這種情況的變化是爲了保護情感脆弱的女性不受男性的攻擊。