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The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Ev
The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Ev
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The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, showed that men and women were equally likely to lose their closest friends when they started a new relationship.
Previous research by Dunbar’s group has shown that people typically have five very close relationships — that is, people whom they would turn to if they were in emotional or financial trouble.
"If you go into a romantic relationship, it costs you two friends. Those who have romantic relationships, instead of having the typical five ’core set’ of relationships only have four. And of those, one is the new person who’s come into their life," said Dunbar.
The study, submitted to the journal Personal Relationships, was designed to investigate how people trade off spending time with one person over another and suggests that links with family and closest friends suffer when people start a romantic relationship.
Dunbar’s team used an Internet-based questionnaire to quiz 428 women and 112 men about their relationships. In total, 363 of the participants had romantic partners. The findings suggest that a new love interest has to compensate for the loss of two close friends.
Speaking at the British Science Festival in Birmingham, Professor Dunbar said: "This was a surprise for us. We hadn’t expected it. If you don’t see people, your emotional engagement with them drops off and does so quickly. What I suspect is that your attention is so wholly focused on the romantic partner you don’t get to see the other folks you had a lot to do with before, and so some of those relationships start to deteriorate."
The questionnaire allowed people to mention whether any of their closest confidants (知己) were "extra romantic partners". In all, 32 of those quizzed mentioned having an extra love interest in their life, but these people did not lose four friends as might be expected. Instead, the extra person in their life bumped their original romantic partner out of their innermost circle of friends.
In a separate study, Dunbar’s team looked at how men and women maintained friendships on the social networking website Facebook. They found that women’s Facebook friends were more often friends from everyday life that they spent time with, while men tended to collect as many friends as they could, even if they hardly knew them.
"Boys seem to be in a competition to see who can have the most Facebook friends and that could be a form of mate advertising. One of the cues women use for male quality as a mate is the number of other girls chasing them, so signing up lots of girls as Facebook friends seems to be a good idea," said Dunbar. [br] Boys sign up many female Facebook friends in order to______.
选项
A、have more choices
B、show off their charm
C、take more pleasure
D、make more friends
答案
B
解析
根据题干中的Boys sign up和Facebook friends将本题出处定位到末段引号中的末句。该句提到,女性判断男性作为配偶的品质的线索之一就是看追求该男性的女性数量,因此在社交网站上加很多女性朋友是很好的方法。由此可见,男孩在Facebook上加很多女性朋友的目的是为了显示他们的魅力,故答案为[B]。[A]“有更多的选择”在文中未提到,故排除[C]“获得更多乐趣”在文中未提到,故排除:[D]是针对引文中的首句的to see whocan have the most Facebook friends的干扰项,文中说的是,男性出于竞争心理,想看看到底谁能拥有更多网友,以此作为择偶宣传的方式,[D]属于断章取义,故排除。
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