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 Hot: The Berkeley study found that the more popular the individual the more a similarly popular individual would be attracted to them. |
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When it comes to love, there are no hard and fast rules though many people follow the age-old theory that opposites attract. But now a study has found that more often that not, similarity rules the day. Researchers at Berkeley found that people are drawn to potential romantic partners if they are of their own or similar league and desirability, which they called the 'matching hypothesis'. Of course personality traits and common interests play a factor but for that instant attraction, like is drawn towards like, putting paid to the phrase, 'You're out of my league'. For their research, the authors of the study turned - as most singletons do today - to online dating sites. They measured the popularity of more than 3,000 heterosexual users of a site and looked at the popularity of each. Popularity was defined by the number of opposite-sex individuals who had sent unsolicited messages to a user. Analyses indicated that high-popularity users contacted other popular users at a rate greater than would be expected by chance. Similarly, the less popular users of the site also contacted other low-popularity users. The researchers then conducted a follow-up study of more than a million users and found a similar result - when it comes to dating, potential mates stick to someone in their own league. The authors found that: 'Individuals on the dating market will assess their own self-worth and select partners whose social desirability approximately equals their own. 'Using data collected in the laboratory and from users of a popular online dating site, the authors found evidence for matching based on self-worth, physical attractiveness, and popularity, but to different degrees and not always at the same stage of the dating process. 'The most striking prediction is that undesirable individuals will choose undesirable partners.' (Read by Renee Haines. Renee Haines is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
雖然許多人都遵循“相異相吸”這一老話，但情場(chǎng)上其實(shí)并沒有鐵的法則。 如今一項(xiàng)研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，大多數(shù)時(shí)候，是相似的人之間互相吸引。 伯克利大學(xué)的研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，如果潛在戀愛對(duì)象的魅力指數(shù)和自己是同一水平的，那么他們更容易互相吸引，研究人員將這稱為“配對(duì)假說”。 誠(chéng)然，個(gè)性特質(zhì)和共同的興趣也會(huì)有影響，但是就像一見鐘情的瞬間吸引力一樣，人們也可以立刻覺察到“咱倆不是一路人”。 為了進(jìn)行這一研究，研究人員和現(xiàn)在的許多單身人士一樣，求助于在線約會(huì)網(wǎng)站。 他們測(cè)評(píng)了一個(gè)約會(huì)網(wǎng)站3000多名異性戀用戶的魅力指數(shù)，然后再單獨(dú)觀察每個(gè)用戶的人氣。 研究人員根據(jù)向一名用戶主動(dòng)發(fā)送信息的異性人數(shù)來評(píng)估這名用戶的人氣。 分析表明，人氣高的用戶聯(lián)系其他人氣用戶比預(yù)期聯(lián)系隨機(jī)用戶的幾率要高得多。 同樣地，人氣欠佳的用戶聯(lián)系的也是其他人氣較低的用戶。 研究人員隨后對(duì)100多萬名用戶進(jìn)行了后續(xù)調(diào)查，發(fā)現(xiàn)了相似的結(jié)果：人們都會(huì)選擇和自己同一層次的人進(jìn)行約會(huì)。 研究報(bào)告作者發(fā)現(xiàn)：“約會(huì)市場(chǎng)上的人會(huì)評(píng)估自身的價(jià)值，并選擇受歡迎程度和自己大致相當(dāng)?shù)娜俗鳛榘閭H。 “根據(jù)從實(shí)驗(yàn)室和從熱門在線約會(huì)網(wǎng)站用戶收集到的數(shù)據(jù)，筆者發(fā)現(xiàn)配對(duì)主要基于自我價(jià)值、外表吸引力和受歡迎程度，不過各個(gè)因素的影響力大小不同，而且也并不總是在約會(huì)過程中的同一階段產(chǎn)生影響。 “最不尋常的預(yù)測(cè)就是：沒人要的人會(huì)選擇沒人要的人做伴侶?！?/p> 相關(guān)閱讀 （中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 陳丹妮 編輯：馮明惠） |
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Vocabulary: more often that not: usually; in a way that is typical of somebody/something （通常；往往；一貫） of one's league: 與某人同類型 out of one's league: 與某人不屬同一類型 heterosexual: a person who is sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex（異性戀者） unsolicited: not asked for and sometimes not wanted（未經(jīng)要求的；自發(fā)的） |
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