The research shows men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function than those who chat to someone they do not find attractive.
一項研究表明，男性在與迷人的女性聊上幾分鐘后，在腦功能測試中的表現(xiàn)要遜色于那些僅和相貌平庸的女性聊過天的男人。
Researchers who carried out the study, published in the Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, think the reason may be that men use up so much of their brain function or "cognitive resources" trying to impress beautiful women, they have little left for other tasks.
研究結(jié)果發(fā)表在《實驗與社會心理學期刊》上，研究人員認為也許是因為男性在想法設法吸引漂亮女性時，消耗了太多的腦功能或“認知資源”。
The findings have implications for the performance of men who flirt with women in the workplace, or even exam results in mixed-sex schools.
該研究或許有助于理解在工作場所與女性調(diào)情的男性的表現(xiàn)，甚至是男女混合學校的考試成績。
Women, however, were not affected by chatting to a handsome man.
然而女人則不會因為和帥哥聊天而受到影響。
This may be simply because men are programmed by evolution to think more about mating opportunities.
這也許不過是因為男人在進化時就被設定為要為“交配機會”多操心一些。
Psychologists at Radboud University in The Netherlands carried out the study after one of them was so struck on impressing an attractive woman he had never met before, that he could not remember his address when she asked him where he lived.
荷蘭內(nèi)梅亨大學的心理學家們作此研究緣起他們中的一位在與一個從未謀面的美女搭訕時遇到了麻煩，當她問起他住哪時，他居然忘記了自己的住址！
Researchers said it was as if he was so keen to make an impression he "temporarily absorbed most of his cognitive resources".
研究人員稱，貌似他急于給美女留下深刻印象，以至于“暫時性占用了他絕大多數(shù)的認知資源”。
To see if other men were affected in the same way, they recruited 40 male heterosexual students.
為了觀察其他男性是否也會受這種因素影響，他們召集了40位異性戀的男學生。
Each one performed a standard memory test where they had to observe a stream of letters and say, as fast as possible, if each one was the same as the one before last.The volunteers then spent seven minutes chatting to male or female members of the research team before repeating the test.
每位都進行了一個標準的記憶測試，他們必須在觀察一串字母時盡快說出每個字母是否與之前的字母相同。隨后每位測試者與研究團隊中的男女成員聊上7分鐘，再次進行同樣的測試。
The results showed men were slower and less accurate after trying to impress the women. The more they fancied them, the worse their score.
結(jié)果顯示男性們在企圖給美女留下深刻印象后，反應速度和準確率都有所降低。所交談的女性越吸引他們，他們的結(jié)果就越糟。
But when the task was repeated with a group of female volunteers, they did not get the same results. Memory scores stayed the same, whether they had chatted to a man or a woman.
但當同樣的測試在一組女性志愿者中進行時，并沒有出現(xiàn)同樣的結(jié)果，無論她們的交談對象是男是女，結(jié)果都沒有改變。
In a report on their findings the researchers said: "We conclude men's cognitive functioning may temporarily decline after an interaction with an attractive woman."
他們在研究報告中稱：“我們得出的結(jié)論是在與美女交流后，男性的認知功能會暫時性的下降。”
Psychologist Dr George Fieldman, a member of the British Psychological Society, said the findings reflect the fact that men are programmed to think about ways to pass on their genes.
英國心理學會的心理學家Dr George Fieldman表示，研究結(jié)果反應出男性的天性便是設法傳遞他們的基因。
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