Beauty: Difference between revisions

Contrary to [[social constructionists]], beauty is actually [[Scientific_Blackpill#Beauty_is_objective_and_measurable_in_the_brain|mostly objective]], which is [[Scientific_Blackpill#People_broadly_agree_on_who_is_good_looking_or_not.2C_and_it_affects_every_aspect_of_life|especially true]] in case of [[truecels|very physically unattractive people]].  Physical attractiveness strongly predicts romantic interest and moderately when rated by others, roughly to the same degree in men and women.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Blackpill#cite_note-30</ref>

Beauty is misperceived to be associated with various positive traits [[Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are|to unreasonable degree]], such as intelligence and health, which is called the ''beauty-is-good stereotype'', a certain kind of [[halo effect]].

This means there are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in our brains which assign value to our percepts, partly by literally comparing them to ''hardwired patterns'' and partly by analyzing the ''mathematical/geometric beauty'' of the percepts, such as symmetry, smoothness, elegance, or more generally, ''simplicity'', which is common to many higher animals.<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref></p>

Related to this, ''sexually dimorphic beauty'' is another kind of objective beauty, which includes seemingly arbitrary, exaggerated and specific body features, such as large female breasts or male penises, highly specific shapes of noses (e.g. upturned nose in females, a robust mandible in men, i.e. [[Millimeters of bone|few millimeters of bone]]), as well as dimples on back or cheeks, muscle tone, cleavage, thigh gab, abs crack, six pack (see also [[:Category:Aesthetics]]), and also complex coloration patterns in many sighted higher animals. These kinds of beauty often cannot fully be explained by simplicity because they are seemingly unnecessary specific or complex. Either there are functional constraints or correlated characters<ref>Price T, Langen T. 1992. ''Evolution of correlated characters.'' [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21236041 Abstract]]</ref> preventing a simpler shape, or [[Fisherian runaway|feedback loops in sexual selection]] resulted in arbitrary shapes becoming increasingly sexually attractive.

'''Subjective beauty''': This kind of beauty consists of individual preferences resulting from individual emotional experiences, or from variance in development of neuronal circuitry for inherited sexual preferences regarding objective beauty (as described above) at individual level.  

Objective beauty has likely mostly evolved by a preference for simplicity (aesthetic sexual selection) common to many higher animals,<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref> i.e. members of a species tended to choose objectively/mathematically beautiful mates and hence species evolved to be beautiful and beauty became an important factor of attraction. This was possibly reinforced, narrowed and ''overcomplicated'' by feedback loops in sexual selection such as [[Fisherian runaway]] and ''sensory bias''.<ref>Fuller, R. C., Houle, D., & Travis, J. 2005. ''Sensory Bias as an Explanation for the Evolution of Mate Preferences.'' [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/444443 Abstract]]</ref>

Some simple and elegant body shapes may not necessarily be a result of aesthetic selection, but for example result from optimizing for resources efficiency or resilience, but again feedback loops could have sharpened and strengthened the sexual attraction to such shapes.

Attraction to sexually dimorphic beauty also increases fitness because seeking out the opposite sex is conductive for reproduction.