想知道周圍的朋友性格怎么樣嗎？和他們一起跳跳舞吧。科學研究發現：跳舞時，人的性格會自然而充分地流露，舞姿能夠透露一個人的性格特征……

By Richard Gray

The way you dance can reveal information about your personality, scientists have found.

It is where many couples firstset eyes on one another—and now research suggests that thedance floor is the perfect place to gauge a prospective partner’s personality. Scientists have claimed that the way a person gyrates in time to music can betray secrets of their character. Using personality tests, the researchers assessed volunteers into one of five “types”. They then observed how each members of each group danced to different kinds of music. They found that:

* Extroverts moved their bodies around most on the dance floor, often with energetic and exaggerated movements of their head and arms.

* Neurotic individuals danced with sharp, jerky movements of their hands and feet.

* Agreeable personalities tended to have smoother dancing styles, making use of the dance floor by moving side to side while swinging their hands.

* Open-minded people tended to make rhythmic up-and-down movements, and did not move around as much as most of the others.

* People who were conscientious or dutiful moved around the dance floor a lot, and also moved their hands over larger distances than other dancers.

Dr Geoff Luck of the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, who led the research, said: “Music is known to evoke strong emotions in people and emotions can be expressed through bodily movement. People use body motions as reliable indicators of others’ personality types, and even the movements of robots have been shown to elicit attributes of ‘personality’ by observers.”

Vocabulary

reveal 顯示，透露，泄露

personality 個性，性格

set eyes on 看，看見

dance floor 舞池

gauge 估計，判斷

prospective 未來的，可能的

gyrate 旋轉，回旋

betray （非故意地）暴露，顯露

extrovert 性格外向的人

energetic 精力充沛的，充滿活力的

exaggerated 夸張的

neurotic 神經過敏的，神經質的

sharp 急速的

jerky 忽動忽停的，痙攣性的

agreeable 討人喜歡的，令人愉快的

open-minded 思想開闊的，虛心的

rhythmic 有節奏的

up-and-down 一上一下的，忽上忽下的

conscientious 認真的，勤勤懇懇的

dutiful 盡職的

Finland 芬蘭

robot 機器人

elicit 使露出，推導出

attribute 屬性，特性

（來源：英語學習雜志）