【卫报】研究发现: 戴口罩让人看上去更具吸引力

Face masks make us look more attractive, study finds

研究发现，戴口罩让我们看起来更有魅力

There have been precious adv.强调极少或太少 few positives during the Covid pandemic but British academics may have unearthed one: people look more attractive in protective masks. Researchers at Cardiff University were surprised to find that both men and women were judged to look better with a face covering obscuring 遮蔽 the lower half of their faces.

新冠肺炎大流行期间几乎没有什么积极因素，但英国学者可能发现了一个积极因素:戴防护口罩的人看起来更有吸引力。卡迪夫大学的研究人员惊奇地发现，人们认为遮住下半张脸的男性和女性看起来都更好看。

In what may be a blow 猛击；打击；挫折 for producers of fashionable coverings – and the environment – they also discovered that a face covered with a disposable-type 抛弃型；可丢弃型 surgical外科的；外科手术的 mask was likely to be deemed the most appealing.

他们还发现，戴着一次性医用口罩的人很可能被认为是最有吸引力的，这对时尚口罩生产商和环境来说可能是一个打击。

Dr Michael Lewis, a reader from Cardiff University’s school of psychology and an expert in faces, said research carried out before the pandemic had found that medical face masks reduced attractiveness because they were associated with disease or illness.

卡迪夫大学(Cardiff University)心理学院的读者、面部专家迈克尔·刘易斯(Michael Lewis)博士表示，大流行之前进行的研究发现，医用口罩会降低吸引力，因为它们与疾病有关。

"We wanted to test whether this had changed since face coverings became ubiquitous似乎无所不在的；十分普遍的 and understand whether the type of mask had any effect,” he said.

他说:“我们想要测试的是，自从口罩变得无处不在以来，这种情况是否有所改变，并了解口罩类型是否有任何效果。”

"Our study suggests faces are considered most attractive when covered by medical face masks. This may be because we’re used to healthcare workers wearing blue masks and now we associate these with people in caring or medical professions. At a time when we feel vulnerable 易受伤的；易受影响（或攻击）的；脆弱的, we may find the wearing of medical masks reassuring and so feel more positive towards the wearer 穿戴者；佩戴人；常穿戴…的人.”

“我们的研究表明，人们认为戴医用口罩的脸最有吸引力。这可能是因为我们习惯了医护人员戴蓝色口罩，现在我们把它们与护理或医疗行业的人联系在一起。在我们感到脆弱的时候，我们可能会发现戴医用口罩让人放心，因此会对佩戴者感到更积极。”

The first part of the research was carried out in February 2021 by which time the British population had become used to wearing masks in some circumstances. Forty-three women were asked to rate on a scale of one to 10 the attractiveness of images of male faces without a mask, wearing a plain cloth mask, a blue medical face mask, and holding a plain black book covering the area a face mask would hide.

研究的第一部分是在2021年2月进行的，那时英国人已经习惯在某些环境下戴口罩。43名女性被要求给不戴口罩、戴普通布口罩、戴蓝色医用口罩和拿着一本普通黑色书遮住口罩能遮住的区域的男性面部照片的吸引力打分，从1到10分。

The participants said those wearing a cloth mask were significantly 极大地；显著地；大幅度地；意味深长地 more attractive than the ones with no masks or whose faces were partly obscured by the book. But the surgical mask – which was just a normal, disposable kind – made the wearer look even better.

参与者说，戴布面具的人明显比不戴面具或脸被书遮挡的人更有吸引力。但这种普通的一次性医用口罩让佩戴者看起来更美。

"The results run counter 反驳；驳斥；抵制；抵消 to the pre-pandemic research where it was thought masks made people think about disease and the person should be avoided,” said Lewis.

刘易斯说:“这一结果与大流行前的研究相悖，当时的研究认为，口罩会让人们想到疾病，应该避免戴口罩。”

"The pandemic has changed our psychology in how we perceive the wearers of masks. When we see someone wearing a mask we no longer think ‘that person has a disease, I need to stay away’.

“大流行改变了我们对戴口罩者的心理看法。当我们看到有人戴口罩时，我们不再认为“那个人有病，我需要远离”。

Lewis said it was also possible that masks made people more attractive because they directed attention to the eyes. He said other studies had found that covering the left or right half of a face also made people look more attractive, partly because the brain fills in the missing gaps and exaggerates the overall impact.

刘易斯说，戴口罩也有可能让人更有吸引力，因为他们把注意力引向了眼睛。他说，其他研究也发现，遮住左半边脸也会让人看起来更有吸引力，部分原因是大脑填补了缺失的空白，夸大了整体效果。

The results of the first study has been published in the journal Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. A second study has been carried out, in which a group of men look at women in masks; it has yet to be published but Lewis said the results were broadly the same.

第一项研究的结果发表在《认知研究:原则和启示》杂志上。在第二项研究中，一组男人看着戴面具的女人;该研究结果尚未发表，但刘易斯表示，研究结果大致相同。