男人缘何喜欢"小脚"女人

    Jeremy Atkinson, an evolutionary psychologist at the University at Albany, New York, and his colleagues measured hand length, foot length, thigh length and hip width on 60 white female college students. For each of 16 body-part measurements, he and his colleagues selected the eight women with the shortest lengths and the eight with the longest, and constructed morphs of their faces. These morphs were then rated for attractiveness by 77 heterosexual male students.

　　纽约奥尔巴尼一所大学的进化心理学教授杰里米-阿特金森和同事们测量了60位白人女大学生的手、脚、股骨的长度以及臀围。然后在每一项测量结果中选择8位测量结果最短以及8位测量结果最长的女生，再对他们的相貌分别进行合成。随后，77位在校异性恋男生对这些照片的吸引力进行评判。

　　The men were three-and-a-half times as likely to pick the short-footed morph as more attractive, and almost 10 times as likely to say it was more feminine, Atkinson and his colleagues found. Similarly, they were more than 11 times as likely to pick the narrow-hipped morph as more attractive, and eight times as likely to choose the long-thighed morph.

　　结果发现，认为脚小女生的相貌合成照片更可爱的男生数目是持相反观点男生数目的3.5倍。而认为脚小女生的合成照片更有“女人味”的男生数目则达到了反对者数目的将近10倍。同样，认为窄臀女生的相貌合成照片更有魅力的男生是反对者数目的11倍，而认为长腿女生的合成照更好看的男生则为不同意见者数目的8倍。