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Such a testosterone boost may give a man the nudge to pursue a woman he might not have otherwise noticed.
睪丸素分泌的增加可能會促使這個男人去追求這個平時他可能就會忽略的女性。
A woman's nose is particularly attuned to MHC molecules, which are used to fight disease.
女性的鼻子對一種名為MHC分子的化學物質尤為敏感。這種物質是用來對抗疾病的。
In this case, opposites attract.
因此，異性相吸。
When a study asked women to smell T-shirts that had been worn by different men,
另一個研究要求女性來聞不同男性穿過的T恤
they preferred the odors of those whose MHC molecules differed from theirs.
她們更傾向于和她們自己的MHC分子不同的氣味。
This makes sense.
這是說得通的。
Genes that result in a greater variety of immunities may give offspring a major survival advantage.
基因造成的免疫力的巨大差異可能會給后代以重要的生存優勢。
Our ears also determine attraction.
我們的耳朵同樣決定著吸引力。
Men prefer females with high-pitched, breathy voices, and wide formant spacing, correlated with smaller body size.
男人更喜歡女性擁有音調較高、帶有呼吸聲、共振間隔較長的聲音，因為它讓人聯想到小巧玲瓏。
While women prefer low-pitched voices with a narrow formant spacing that suggest a larger body size.
而女性則更喜歡音調低沉、共振間隔較短的男性聲音，因為它讓人聯想到高大威猛。
And not surprisingly, touch turns out to be crucial for romance.
意料之中，觸覺對浪漫有著決定性的作用。
In this experiment, not realizing the study had begun, participants were asked to briefly hold the coffee, either hot or iced.
在一個實驗中，被告知實驗開始前參與者被要求短暫地拿著一杯咖啡，熱的或者是冷的。
Later, the participants read a story about a hypothetical person, and were asked to rate their personality.
然后，參與者被要求閱讀一個假想的人的故事并且評價他的個性。
Those who had held the hot cup of coffee perceived the person in the story as happier, more social, more generous and better-natured than
拿著熱咖啡的人認為故事里的人快樂、具有社會性、慷慨、天性善良，
those who had held the cup of iced coffee, who rated the person as cold, stoic, and unaffectionate.
而拿了冷咖啡的人則認為這個人冷酷、恬淡無欲、沒有感情。
