囧研究：寶寶都是顏控 長(zhǎng)得丑小孩都不理你

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(fā)表于《心理學(xué)前沿》雜志的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，孩子和成年人一樣會(huì)本能地更信任長(zhǎng)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.

為了開展本項(xiàng)研究，中國(guó)研究團(tuán)隊(duì)招募了一群8歲、10歲和12歲大的孩子，每組33至34人（數(shù)量相當(dāng)?shù)拇髮W(xué)生組成控制組）。小志愿者們觀看了一系列200個(gè)不熟悉的面孔，將它們分為“值得信任的”、“不值得信任的”和“無法判斷的”；一個(gè)月之后，他們又回來看了同樣的面孔，這次根據(jù)魅力值為它們劃分等級(jí)。

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(gè)年齡組，這兩項(xiàng)判斷都是密切相關(guān)的——更有魅力的面孔一般會(huì)被評(píng)定為更值得信任。在此之前，已有大量類似實(shí)驗(yàn)，研究小孩子如何依據(jù)外表作出判斷：比如，過去的研究證明，學(xué)齡前兒童會(huì)尋找更有魅力的同齡人作玩伴，而且他們更喜歡依賴長(zhǎng)相更好看的人作為信息來源；甚至連3歲小孩都能通過看人臉來猜測(cè)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(jīng)驗(yàn)中，他們會(huì)目睹有魅力的個(gè)人與值得信任的行為之間的聯(lián)系，而‘美是好的’這種印象也就逐漸形成了?！?/p>

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(huì)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。