| You might feel "they" – as in, people of another race – really might all look alike to you. Psychologists call this the "other-race effect," and it's real, MSNBC.com reported. |
据MSNBC网站报道，你可能觉得其他种族的人看起来都长一个模样，心理学家称之为“他种族效应”，这种情况确实存在。 |
| Researchers did an experiment to study this phenomenon. A group of young white women were outfitted with caps containing electrodes to measure their brain's electrical activity through the scalp and then shown headshots of white, black, Hispanic and Asian men. Minutes later, they were tested to see if they could recognize the faces they had just seen. |
研究者做了这样一个实验：给一组白种女青年带上装有电极的帽子——这种帽子可以通过头皮记录下她们脑部的电波活动，然后让她们看白种、黑种、西班牙裔和亚洲男人的头像照片。几分钟之后，实验者接受测试，看她们是否还记得看过的这些人的样子。 |
| Brain activity increased each time the women looked at a photo, whether or not it depicted a white man. But while photos of white guys consistently kicked their brains into higher gear, the photos of non-white men did so only sometimes. |
这些女性每看一张照片，不管照片中是不是白种男人，她们的大脑活动都会提升一次。但白种男人的照片会使她们的大脑活动更进一级，非白种男人中仅有个别的使她们的大脑活动晋级。 |
| Turns out, those were the images the women were more likely to remember later. |
结果是，那些使大脑活动更进一级的照片之后更有可能被实验者所记住。 |
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The researchers said it's still not clear whether we are less capable of recognizing people of other races, or we are simply less likely to try.
(China.org.cn July 11, 2011) |
研究者称，现在还不清楚究竟是我们不容易认出其他种族人的样子，还是我们不愿意去记。 |
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