【赫临译笔】男性更富竞争性 - 心云驛站

女性很友好，但男性更富有竞争性，为什么呢？研究人员已经发现这全归功于荷尔蒙催生素。虽然被誉为爱的荷尔蒙，可它对男性和女性的影响是不同的。

“女性往往更爱社交，她们经常与人分享；而男性往往更富竞争性，他们在努力改善自己的社会地位。”瑞安教授这样说。

一般说来，这种荷尔蒙催生素会在各种社交场合在体内释放出来，在许多积极的社交场合，如坠入爱河或新生儿出生，我们的身体都会大量分泌。

但瑞安教授在以前的实验中发现，在一些负面社交场合比如嫉妒，这种激素也会在体内释放。

进一步的研究表明：这种激素在男性身上提高的是识别竞争的能力，而在女性身上提高的则是识别友谊的能力。

瑞安教授最近的实验使用了六十二名男女，他们的年龄在二十岁到三十七岁之间。

一周后，两组参与者互换角色，他们被注射另外一种东西。

每次注射后，都给他们放一些录像，里面有不同的社交画面。然后，让他们通过分析录像中的人物关系来回答一些问题。这些问题是关于区分友谊和竞争的。他们的回答应该基于录像中的手势，肢体语言和面部表情。

结果表明：注射激素后，男性正确识别竞争关系的能力提高了，而女性则是正确识别友谊的能力有所提高。

瑞安教授得出结论：“我们的实验证明荷尔蒙催生素能够提高人们更好地区分社交互动的能力，而男女的行为差异是由生物因素引起的，这种因素主要是激素。”

Women are friendly. But men are more competitive, Why? Researchers have found it’s all down to the hormone oxytocin. Although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently.

“Women tend to be social intheir behavior. They often share with others, But men tend to be competitive,They are trying to improve their social status,” said Professor Ryan.

Generally,people believe that the hormone exytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interaction such as falling in love or giving birth.

Butin a previous experiment Professor Ryan found that the hormone is also let outin our body during negative social interactions such as envy.

Further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship.

Professor Ryan’s recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37.

Halfof the participants received oxytocin. The other half received placebo.

Aftera week, the two groups switched with participants. They went through the same procedure with the other material.

Following each treatment, they were shown some video pictures with different social interactions. Then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions. The questions were about telling friendship from competition.And their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions.

The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men’s ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better.

Professor Ryan thus concluded: “ Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people’s abilities to better distinguish different social interactions.And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factor that are mainly hormonal.”