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Girls who attend single-sex schools are more attracted to feminine looking boys, researchers have claimed. The St Andrews University-led study suggested a girls-only education could have a "significant impact" on what the youngsters found attractive.

研究人員宣稱，上女校的女孩子，比較容易受到女性化外型的男孩子吸引。聖安德魯斯大學領導的研究顯示，女校教育可能對這些年輕人的審美觀有重大影響。

Boys at all-male schools proved less susceptible to the effect, although the study found they did prefer the company of boys with more masculine faces.

上男校的男孩子比較不會受到這種影響，不過研究發現，他們確實比較喜歡與臉孔比較陽剛的男孩子交朋友 。

The effect was weakened if children had siblings of the opposite sex at home.The research team said the results suggested a person’s "visual diet" influenced what they thought was attractive.

如果小孩子有異性手足，這種影響會減弱。研究團隊說，這項結果顯示一個人的「視覺飲食」影響他們認為的吸引力。

They asked 240 children, aged 11-15, attending co-educational and single-sex schools, to rate faces in terms of attractiveness.

他們要求240個上男女合校或是單一性別學校、年齡在11歲到15歲的小孩，為各種臉孔的吸引力評分。

It suggested female pupils at single-sex schools, compared with those at mixed schools, had a significantly stronger preference for facial femininity in both male and female faces.

研究顯示，女校學生比上男女合校的學生，更強烈偏好帶有女性化臉孔的男性與女性。

新聞辭典

feminine：形容詞，女性化。例句：Her clothes are always very feminine.（她的衣服總是非常有女人味。）

youngster：名詞，年輕人。例句： The scheme is for youngsters between the ages of 10 and 16.

（這項計畫是為了10到16歲的年輕人。）

susceptible：形容詞，易受……影響的。例句：She isn’t very susceptible to flattery.（她不會很容易受到諂媚影響。）

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