男人魅力:揭示什麼樣的鬍子最受女士青睞
Men feel other men look better with a beard, but women prefer men sporting nothing more than heavy stubble, according to Australian researchers.
男人們覺得留鬍子都會顯得更帥氣，然而澳大利亞的研究人員指出，女人其實更喜歡留着濃密短胡茬的男人。Researchers from The University of New South Wales, Australia, quantified men and women's judgments of attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities for photographs of men who were clean-shaven, lightly or heavily stubbled and fully bearded.
來自澳大利亞新南威爾士大學的研究人員給出幾種男人的照片：鬍子颳得很乾淨的、留着淡淡胡茬的、留着濃密胡茬的和滿臉大鬍子的，讓男人和女人從吸引力、健康水平、男子氣概和育兒能力幾個方面給照片中的男人作出評價，並對此進行量化研究。They also tested the effect of the menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptive use on women's ratings.
他們還測試了月經週期和避孕藥的使用對女性評分的影響。
The results, reported in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, showed that women judged faces with heavy stubble as most attractive and heavy beards, light stubble and clean-shaven faces as similarly less attractive.
這一發表在《進化與人類行爲》期刊上的研究結果顯示，女人認爲臉上留着濃密胡茬的男人最有魅力，大鬍子、淡淡胡茬和臉颳得很乾淨的男人都沒那麼有吸引力。In contrast, men rated full beards and heavy stubble as most attractive, followed closely by clean-shaven and light stubble as least attractive.
相比之下，男人認爲大鬍子和濃密胡茬最有魅力，其次是颳得很乾淨的臉，淡淡胡茬最缺少魅力。Men and women rated full beards highest for parenting ability and healthiness. Masculinity ratings increased linearly as facial hair increased, and this effect was more pronounced in women in the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle, although attractiveness ratings did not differ according to fertility.
男人和女人都認爲大鬍子男人的育兒能力和健康水平是最高的。男人臉上毛髮越多，對其男子氣概的評價也隨之直線上升。處於排卵期的女性受這一影響最爲顯著，不過她們對男人魅力的評價並沒有因爲自己處於排卵期而有所變化。The findings confirm that beardedness affects judgments of male socio-sexual attributes and suggest that an intermediate level of beardedness is most attractive while full-bearded men may be perceived as better fathers who could protect and invest in offspring, the researchers concluded.
研究人員得出結論說，這些研究結果證實，鬍子多少會影響人們對男性的社會屬性和性特徵的判斷，研究也指出，鬍子不多不少是最有魅力的，而大鬍子男人被認爲是更好的父親，有能力保護小孩，會爲小孩投入更多。
