外表和智力间的关系在许多年前就引起了科学界的兴趣,科学家试图探究是否真有可能通过一个人的相貌来判断他的智商。1918年,美国俄亥俄州的一位科研人员做了一项实验,他将十余张穿着同样考究的小孩肖像照展示给一个由医生和教师所组成的评判小组,小组成员须根据肖像照对孩子们的聪明程度进行判断、排序,这种主观判断的结果会与客观智力测验的结果相比对。最终所得结论是,人们多少是可以依据相貌丑俊来判断智商高低的。此后,许多科学家都做了与上述实验相近的研究,结论也都几乎一致,但他们始终无法搞清到底那些照片传达出了怎样的信息。美国哥伦比亚大学的心理学家爱德华·桑代克于1920年提出了另一个理论——晕轮效应。该理论认为:当我们被要求去描述他人的多样品质时,倾向于将描述对象的某 The relationship between appearance and intelligence has aroused the interest of the scientific community many years ago and scientists are trying to find out whether it is really possible to judge his IQ by looking at one’s appearance. In 1918, an American Ohio State researcher conducted an experiment in which he presented more than a dozen equally well-dressed children’s portraits to a panel of doctors and teachers who were required to show their children according to their portraits Their level of intelligence to judge, sort, the result of such subjective judgments will be compared with the objective intelligence test results. The final conclusion is that people are more or less based on the appearance of ugly to judge IQ level. Since then, many scientists have done research similar to the above experiment, the conclusions are almost the same, but they still can not figure out what exactly those pictures convey the kind of information. Edward Sangdek, a psychologist at Columbia University in the United States, put forward another theory in 1920 - the halo effect. The theory holds that when we are asked to describe the diverse qualities of others, we tend to describe