You may think that appearing intelligent might be the key to getting a promotion¹ at work.

你也许认为，锐智的外形是在工作中获得升职机会的关键。

But people who want to rise to the top should concentrate on looking healthy, according to a new study.

但是，根据一项新研究显示，那些想要爬到顶层的人应该把注意力放在外形健康上。

Researchers found that 70 per cent of the time, a worker with a healthy complexion² is more appealing than a colleague who looks intelligent.

研究者们发现，在70%的情况下，一个气色健康的职员比一个相貌聪颖的职员更吸引人。

They discovered that appearing intelligent is an ‘optional extra’ for workers looking for a pay rise or for politicians seeking election.

他们发现，对那些想要加薪的员工或想要获选的政客来说，外表锐智只是一项“可有可无的附加值”。

In the experiment, the participants were given a job description that specified³ the CEO’s main challenge each time they were asked to choose between the two images.

在一项实验中，研究者向参与者们提供了一份首席执行官主要工作任务的详细说明，并请参与者们数次在两张头像中做出选择。

Job descriptions involved driving aggressive competition, renegotiating a key partnership⁴ with another company, leading the company’s shift into a new market and overseeing the sustained exploitation of non-renewable energy.

工作任务包括主持积极的竞争活动，与另一家公司重新协商相互之间的关键伙伴关系，领导公司转向新的市场，监督对不可再生能源的可持续开发。

The participants chose more healthy-looking faces over less healthy-looking faces in 69 per cent of trials and this preference was equally strong irrespective of the future CEO’s main challenge.

在69%的情况下，参与者们都会选择气色更加健康的头像，而非气色较不健康的头像。无论这位未来的首席执行官的主要工作任务是怎样的，研究参与者的偏好都非常明显。

More intelligent-looking faces were only preferred over less intelligent-looking faces for the two challenges that would require the most diplomacy⁵ and inventiveness: renegotiating the partnership and exploring the new market.

只有针对两项最需要讲究策略和创新性的工作任务，即重新洽谈伙伴关系和开发新市场时，人们才更偏向于外观锐智的头像，而不是气色健康的头像。

The aim of the experiment was to explore people’s implicit⁶ preferences for traits of leaders, such as health, intelligence, and attractiveness.

这项实验的目标是研究人们在领导者外形特征上的隐形选择偏好，比如健康，智力和美型程度。

In women as well as men, caring and cooperative personalities⁷ are statistically⁸ more likely to have a more ‘feminine’ face, due to higher oestrogen levels, while aggressive risk-takers tend to have higher testosterone levels and a more ‘masculine’ face.

在对女性的调查中，和男性一样，根据数据来看，关爱他人且具有团队精神的女性由于雌激素值更高，因而面容更女性化，而更有闯劲和冒险精神的女性则拥有更高的男性荷尔蒙，所以更倾向于拥有中性化的外形。