声音和气味，哪个更吸引你？

Beauty Isn't Only in the Eyes of the Beholder — You Can Smell and Hear It Too Researchers surveying 30 years of studies on attraction found that olfactory and acoustic factors played a major role in attractiveness. Over the past 30 years, research on attractiveness has paid too much attention to the importance of the face and body, ignoring the crucial role of smell and sound in the interaction between two people. As the international team of scientists led by Agata Groyecka points out: "Beauty is also in the nose and the ear of the beholder." The results, published in Frontiers in Psychology, found compelling evidence that olfactory and acoustic components played a major role in attractiveness, something that has been by and large missing in current research. In the review, Groyecka and colleagues highlighted studies demonstrating that through the voice of an individual, we are able to determine dominance, cooperativeness, emotional state, and even the body size of the speaker. Likewise, studies also suggested that an individual's odor can be used to assess sex, fertility, diet, and genetic compatibility. In fact, odor allows us to recognize our own kin, a likely evolutionary mechanism to avoid inbreeding. "Most people might know what their type is — in terms of physical attractiveness — but they might not know what kinds of odors or voices they like," said Groyecka. "It is that feeling when you find someone attractive, but you're not really sure why you do." Talking points: - What attracts you the most to an individual? - Another important finding was that when sight, smell, sound were evaluated simultaneously, the effect was synergistic — combined, they provided more information than any single element could individually. Combining an attractive face, for example, with an attractive voice or scent, resulted in a higher overall judgment of attractiveness than a single aspect could predict. - The research goes on to show that Women show a preference for an immediate level of overall masculinity, but were flexible in how they achieved this end. They may prefer less masculine bodies in men with more masculine voices, for example. And both sexes found the faces of people with similar genotypes to their own most attractive, though they preferred odors of those with dissimilar genotypes, suggesting that some level of genetic dissimilarity is preferable 完整节目可通过下载China Plus 客户端收听。