荷兰研究:男人的嫉妒情绪强烈或与身高有关
荷兰科学家最新研究指出，人们的嫉妒情绪强烈可能与他们的身高有关，身高越矮的人越容易产生嫉妒情绪。这篇报道发表在新一期的科学期刊《新科学家》上。
据报道，荷兰格罗宁根商学院和西班牙巴伦西亚大学的研究人员主持了该项研究。在研究中，他们分别让549名来自荷兰和西班牙的男性和女性志愿者回答调查问卷。问卷列出了假想情敌的各项条件，志愿者必须回答他们在哪种条件下产生嫉妒情绪，并记录下嫉妒情绪的强弱程度。
研究结果发现，男人通常在面对强壮、富有和有吸引力的对手时感到紧张和嫉妒，但随着被调查者的身高提高，这种不安和嫉妒的情绪就会减弱。也就是说，男人遇到的情敌比自己越高时，嫉妒情绪越强烈。而在女性当中，身高对嫉妒的影响并不明显。
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Your height dictates how jealousy strikes
12 March 2008
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JEALOUS lovers will wish they could adjust the height of their heels, for the power of the green-eyed monster depends on how tall you are.
So say researchers from the Universities of Groningen and Valencia who asked 549 men and women in the Netherlands and Spain to rate how jealous they felt and to identify the qualities in a romantic competitor that were most likely bug them.
Men, who generally felt most nervous about attractive, rich and strong rivals, were increasingly relaxed, the taller they were themselves. Women, on the other hand, were most jealous of others' beauty and charm, but least so if their own height was average.
This makes evolutionary sense, say the researchers, because previous findings suggest that whilst taller men do best with the ladies, it is women of medium height who enjoy the best health, fertility and popularity with men.
But unlike tall men, medium-height women can be more vulnerable to jealousy under some circumstances. Faced with socially or physically powerful rivals they actually felt more jealous than shorter or taller women. According to the study, this may be because tall and strong, or socially well-connected women could well pose a threat to average-height feminine favourites since they might win conflicts, including physical fights. "Taller women are more dominant and have greater fighting abilities than shorter women," write the researchers in Evolution and Human Behavior (vol 29, p 133).
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