科学揭示为何女性喜欢坏男孩

　　女性被坏男孩吸引并不只是因为他们的皮夹克，而是有原因的，科学可以解释这一点。

　　Apparently¹, people with "pathological" personalities² are simply more attractive to the opposite sex. The new study carried out by a team of researchers at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and published on Scientific American, analyzed³ 1,000 heterosexual men and women with a broad spectrum⁴ of pathological personality traits. Researchers also quizzed the participants on their lifetime "number" of sexual partners and how successful they were in their careers.

　　很明显，拥有“不同寻常”个性的人通常都更具有吸引力。由巴塞罗那医院诊所的研究员组成的团队，发布在科学美国人杂志上的新研究，分析了1000个有着广泛异常特性的异性恋的男性和女性。研究员还测试了参与者一生性伴侣的个数与事业有多成功的关系。

　　科学揭示为何女性喜欢坏男孩

　　Both men and women with personalities such as neurotic⁵ and reckless reported a higher number of both mates and children, though only obsessive-compulsive males—not females—were successful at pinning down long-term partners. According to Fernando Gutiérrez, who led the study, this is likely because obsessive-compulsives earned much more money than other participants. Far more surprising was that neurotic women were more successful in long-lasting love, despite being seen as unstable⁶, anxious, and insecure.

　　据报道不论男性还是女性，具有例如神经质和鲁莽个性的人，拥有更多数量的伴侣和子女，然而只有具有强迫症的男性，成功维系了长期的伴侣。根据这项研究的领导者Fernando Gutiérrez，这很可能是因为有强迫症的人比其他人挣的钱更多。更令人惊奇的是，尽管神经质的女性被视为不稳定，焦虑和不安全，她们却在长期爱情中更成功。

　　Gutiérrez believes women like deviant behavior simply because it's fascinating. “While [pathological men] are selfish, rule-breaking, imprudent, and rebellious⁷, they are also brave, temerarious, independent, and self-reliant—and they live frantic⁸, galvanizing lives,” he says.

　　Gutiérrez认为女性喜爱不正常的行为仅仅是因为有趣。“尽管坏男孩自私，不守常规，不谨慎，反叛，但他们同样也勇敢，不顾一切，独立，自主，而且他们过着狂野，有激情的生活。”他说。

　　Of course, the study has its limits. “Respondents could have inflated⁹ the number of partners in an effort to depict¹⁰ themselves as more desirable," says Corinna E. L?ckenhoff, a human-developmental psychologist at Cornell University. "This may be especially true for individuals whose personality characteristics make them prone¹¹ to dishonesty and for male respondents, since cultural norms tend to view promiscuity¹² [as] more favorable in men than in women." In other words, you can't trust anyone to give his or her accurate "number," let alone psychos.

　　当然了，这项研究也有局限性。“回答者可能会夸大伴侣的数量，以显示自己的魅力，”康奈尔大学人类研究心理学家Corinna E. L?ckenhoff说，“对于性格特点易撒谎是这样，对于男性来说更是这样，因为文化常规使得人们认为乱交可以证明男性更受欢迎。”换句话说，你永远不可能让一个人说出他准确的伴侣数量，更不要说神经病了。

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