红色的确是种浪漫的颜色(中英参照)

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英语中英参照教育红色男性女性魅力心理时尚 |
分类: 杂谈闲聊 |
一项新的研究表明,红色可能使女性对男性更具吸引力。 |
Rochester大学的研究者进行了五项试验以搞清“红色与性关系”是否真实。 |
参试者都是年龄大约20岁左右没毕业的大学生。 |
在第一项试验中,身着白色或红色的女性照片呈现给男学生。结果是身着红色的女性照片较白色更具吸引力。 |
第二项试验包括男女两性学生,尽管男学生认为身着红色比白色女性照片更吸引人,但女学生则不以为然。 |
在其后的三项试验中,男学生观看身着红色或其它不同颜色(灰、绿和蓝色)的女性照片,并查询其对不同颜色女性魅力的评分。 |
参试者也被问及更深的问题,比如你是否愿意与该名女性发生性关系? |
身着红色的女性无论在魅力上和性吸引上都评分较高,这些男学生甚至表示他们愿在身着红色的女性身上花更多的钱。 |
但不管是红色还是其它颜色,对男性判断照片女性是否性格讨人喜欢、心地善良和智慧上并不起作用。 |
“仅仅是最近,心理学和其他学科领域的研究者才开始密切和系统地观察颜色与行为之间的关系。我们对颜色物理学和颜色生理学的了解颇多,但对颜色心理学则一无所知。”研究者在新闻发布会上说,“普遍存在的颜色竟能对我们无意识的行为产生影响,这真是太不可思议了。” |
但是,这种“红色与性关系”如研究文献所述可能是由社会环境所造成的。 |
红色与爱情、性欲望和贪婪在历史和史料上相连由来已久,一看红色就会联想到“红灯”区,情人节的红心等。甚至追溯到古埃及时代,那时女性就将嘴唇涂成红色以示性感。 |
该研究发表在网上的《性格和社会心理学杂志》中。 |
Study Shows That Men Are Attracted to Women in Red
By Kelley Colihan
WebMD Health News
Oct. 28, 2008 -- A new study shows the color red may make women more attractive to men.
Researchers at the University of Rochester, led by Andrew J. Elliot, PhD, carried out five experiments to see if what they call the "red-sex link" was for real.
The participants were undergraduate students whose average age was about 20.
In the first experiment, photos of women with white or red backgrounds were presented to male students. Women's photos with a red background were judged to be more attractive than those with a white background.
The second experiment involved both male and female students. Although male students found a woman's image on a red background more attractive than a white background, the female students did not.
In the next three experiments, male students were shown pictures of women on a red or different-colored background (gray, green, or blue) and asked to rate how attractive the women were.
The participants were also asked questions that went a little deeper, such as are you sexually attracted to this woman?
The women in red scored higher in being attractive and being sexually attractive; men also said they would spend the more money on the women in red than those in other colors.
It seems that color -- red or otherwise -- did not play a role in how likable, kind, or intelligent men perceived the women in the photos to be.
"It's only recently that psychologists and researchers in other disciplines have been looking closely and systematically at the relationship between color and behavior. Much is known about color physics and color physiology, but very little about color psychology," Elliot says in a news release. "It's fascinating to find that something as ubiquitous as color can be having an effect on our behavior without our awareness."
However, researchers write in an article presented with the findings that the "red-sex link" could be solely societal conditioning.
Red has long been associated with love, lust, and desire in history and literature. Images of the "red-light" district, red Valentine's hearts, and more come to mind. And as far back as ancient Egypt women have painted their lips red to appear more attractive.
The study is published online in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.