英語(yǔ)翻譯
Whether the eyes are “the windows of the soul” is debatable; that they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact.During the first two months of a baby’s life,the stimulus that produces a smile is a pair of eyes.The eyes need not be real; a mask with two dots will produce a smile.Significantly,a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile nor will the sight of only one eye when the face is presented in profile.This attraction to eyes as opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures.In one study,when American four-year-olds were asked to draw people,75 percent of them drew people with mouths,but 99 percent of them drew people with eyes.In Japan,however,where babies are carried on their mother’s back,infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes as they do in other cultures.As a result,Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode or decode meaning.In fact,Argyle reveals that the “proper place to focus one’s gaze during a conversation in Japan is on the neck of one’s conversation partner.”