And they attribute it to the fact that, for all sorts of reasons, the ugly kid just matters less to the parent.

他们把这个现象归因为，不知道为什么，父母就是没那么喜欢丑小孩。

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Adults think that when an ugly kid misbehaves it's because they have an ugly soul while the attractive kid, "oh, that little scamp, somebody must have been bothering him."

大人觉得当丑小孩行为不当时,是因为他们的灵魂很丑陋,如果是好看的小孩行为不当，”那个小顽皮，一定是别人烦到他了“

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The study observed people in a shopping--in a parking lot of a supermarket and found that parents were a lot rougher to the kids if their kids are ugly than if their kids are good looking.

研究人员在一个超市的停车场里观察,并发现父母对丑小孩的态度,会比对漂亮小孩的态度更粗暴。

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and I don't know how to phrase this in a politically correct way, but the parents of ugly kids are likely to themselves be ugly people and maybe what they're finding is just ugly people are more violent than good-looking people.

我不知道怎么用不会引起政治争论的话来说，但丑小孩的父母往往也长得丑,也许这个研究的发现是长得丑的人,比长得好看的人更粗暴。

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