囧研究 長得醜連小孩都不理你

A study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology found that children, like adults, inherently trust good-looking people more than unattractive ones.

一份發表於《心理學前沿》雜誌的研究發現，孩子和成年人一樣會本能地更信任長相好看的人而非缺少魅力的人。

For the study, a team of Chinese researchers recruited groups of 8-, 10-, and 12-year-olds, with 33 to 34 kids in each group (a similarly sized group of college students served as a control). These pint-size volunteers viewed a series of 200 unfamiliar faces, categorizing each one as trustworthy, untrustworthy, or neither; a month later, they came back to view the same faces, this time rating them on attractiveness.

爲了開展本項研究，中國研究團隊招募了一羣8歲、10歲和12歲大的孩子，每組33至34人(數量相當的大學生組成控制組)。小志願者們觀看了一系列200個不熟悉的面孔，將它們分爲“值得信任的”、“不值得信任的”和“無法判斷的”;一個月之後，他們又回來看了同樣的面孔，這次根據魅力值爲它們劃分等級。

Across age groups, the two judgments were closely linked — the more attractive faces, in general, were also considered more trustworthy. It's one more in a pile of similar findings about how kids make appearance-based judgments: Past research has shown, for example, that preschool-age children seek out more attractive peers as playmates, and that they prefer to rely on better-looking people as sources of information. Even kids as young as 3 can read a person's face to make assumptions about their character.

不論在哪個年齡組，這兩項判斷都是密切相關的——更有魅力的面孔一般會被評定爲更值得信任。在此之前，已有大量類似實驗，研究小孩子如何依據外表作出判斷：比如，過去的研究證明，學齡前兒童會尋找更有魅力的同齡人作玩伴，而且他們更喜歡依賴長相更好看的人作爲信息來源;甚至連3歲小孩都能通過看人臉來猜測別人的性格。

"The 'beauty is good' impression may gradually develop through children's daily experiences in witnessing the association between attractive individuals and trustworthy behaviors," the authors wrote.

研究人員寫道：“在孩子的日常經驗中，他們會目睹有魅力的個人與值得信任的行爲之間的聯繫，而‘美是好的’這種印象也就逐漸形成了。”

As we have previously noted, beautiful people have it easier in many ways: They tend to be better paid, more confident, and better liked — even by the tiniest of humans.

正如我們此前提到過的，漂亮的人在許多方面都會過得更容易一些：他們往往薪資更高，更有信心，更討人喜歡——甚至連最小的孩子都更喜歡他們。