研究告訴你 交友時應該最先關注哪裏

If you're in the hunt for a new best friend, scientists say the first place you should look is down.

科學家們指出，如果你在找一個新的好友，那麼你首先觀察的地方應該是下面。

Researchers discovered that we are likely to look at the feet of people we want to befriend, as shoes can tell the wearer's personality.

研究人員發現，我們可能會觀察我們想要與之交友的那個人的雙腳，因爲鞋子能夠道出穿鞋者的性格。

Using eye-tracking technology, US researchers followed where 105 heterosexual participants looked when they met someone.

美國研究人員使用了眼球追蹤技術，跟蹤了105名異性戀參與者在遇到某人時會觀察什麼地方。

With members of the same sex, scientists at Kansas University and Wellesley College found the volunteers would look to the feet.

堪薩斯大學和威爾斯利學院的科學家們發現，在面對同性成員中，志願者們會觀察雙腳。

In journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour, they wrote: 'Recent research found shoes to be an accurate artificial sign used to make judgments about a person's.'

他們在《性行爲檔案》期刊中寫道：“近期的研究發現，鞋子是一個用來對他人做出判斷的精確、人爲信號。”

'When looking for a friend, subconsciously, you want to see signals that this person is perhaps part of the same social peer group.'

“當尋找一個朋友時，潛意識裏，你想要發現這個人可能是同一社會羣體中的一員的信號。”

With the opposite sex, the study found women focused on the top half of a man's body, while male attention drifted to a woman's chest.

該研究還發現，在面對異性時，女性會聚焦男性的上半身，而男性則把注意力轉移到女性的胸部。