趣科普：爲什麼我們會覺得自己的照片很醜？
you.know what I'm talking about. There you are, clicking through your friend's Facebook album, when suddenly you happen upon a picture of yourself — or rather, a slightly less attractive version of yourself. The "real" you appears to have been abducted, replaced with some second-rate knock off. What gives? you ask yourself. Is that really what I look like?
你知道我在說什麼。你正在臉書上翻閱朋友的相冊，突然看到一張照片中有你自己——而且還是不太好看的自己。按下快門的時候，真正的“你”被綁架了，換上的是一個假冒的“你”。這個時候你會問自己：咋回事兒？我真的長這樣嗎？
Yes. Yes it is. But don't worry, there's a perfectly sound explanation for why the person staring back at you looks so very unfamiliar, even though that person is, well, you. And by the way: that funny-looking you in the photograph? They're actually more attractive than you think.
是的，你真的就長那樣。但是不要擔心，我們有一套合理的理論來解釋這個問題：爲什麼照片中的你看起來和你自己不太像，但其實那個人就是你啊。不過，順便說一句，你認爲照片裏的你看起來很搞笑？但其實照片裏的你比你認爲的要好看。
It's mirrors, by the way. The answer to why you hate seeing photos of yourself? It's mirrors. Photographer Duncan David gave a short TED talk on how "perception, mirrors and the uncanny valley make us hate photos of ourselves”. In the video, he explained the mere-exposure effect for us.
是鏡子的問題。爲什麼你討厭看到照片中的自己？答案就是鏡子。攝影師Duncan David 做了一個簡短的TED演講，關於“感知，鏡子和讓我們討厭照片中自己的恐怖谷理論”。在視頻中，他爲我們解釋了曝光效應。
The reason we hate seeing photos of ourselves is the mere-exposure effect. Of course, the great thing about the mere-exposure effect is that it's dependent upon individual experience—and that's something you should take comfort in the next time you're lamenting over your slightly-off appearance in a photograph.
我們討厭照片中自己的罪魁禍首是曝光效應。當然，關於曝光效應，有一點十分重要並且可以讓人感到欣慰：它是一種非常個人的體驗——也就是說，只有你會認爲照片上的你比真人醜很多。
The truth is, if photograph-you looked like mirror-image you, everyone else would think you look bizarre. When the images are shown to the person's friends and relatives, they would not think photograph-you is not beautiful. In other words: don't even worry about it. Photograph-you looks great.
事實上，如果照片中的你長得和鏡中的你一樣，每個人都會覺得你長得很奇怪。你的朋友們，親人們在看你的照片時，並不覺得照片中的你不好看，只有你會這麼想。換句話說：千萬不要爲此擔心，照片裏的你看起來很贊哦。
