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'''Beauty''' or '''looks''' in humans and animals refers to aesthetic appearance. | '''Beauty''' or '''looks''' in humans and animals refers to aesthetic appearance. | ||
Beauty is often [[sexual attractiveness|sexually attractive]] to the opposite sex and it is important for [[dominance hierarchy|social status]] in humans.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#A_man.27s_looks_are_significantly_correlated_with_his_popularity_and_peer_status</ref> [[Incels]] tend to be ugly. | Beauty is often [[sexual attractiveness|sexually attractive]] to the opposite sex and it is important for [[dominance hierarchy|social status]] in humans.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#A_man.27s_looks_are_significantly_correlated_with_his_popularity_and_peer_status</ref> [[Incels]] tend to be ugly. | ||
[[social constructionists|Some think]] beauty is subjective, but it is | [[social constructionists|Some think]] beauty is subjective, but it is [[Scientific_Blackpill#Beauty_is_objective_and_measurable_in_the_brain|mostly objective]], especially [[Scientific_Blackpill#People_broadly_agree_on_who_is_good_looking_or_not.2C_and_it_affects_every_aspect_of_life|for ugly 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 [[Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are|misperceived]] to be strongly related to various positive traits such as intelligence and health, which is called the ''beauty-is-good stereotype'', a certain kind of [[halo effect]]. | Beauty is [[Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are|misperceived]] to be strongly related to various positive traits such as intelligence and health, which is called the ''beauty-is-good stereotype'', a certain kind of [[halo effect]]. | ||
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== Objective vs subjective == | == Objective vs subjective == | ||
One can distinguish two kinds of beauty:<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Beauty_is_objective_and_measurable_in_the_brain</ref> | |||
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<p>'''Objective beauty''': Objective preferences are not acquired by experience, but inherited | <p>'''Objective beauty''': Objective preferences are not acquired by experience, but inherited. | ||
There are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in the human brain which evaluate percepts in proportion to beauty. | |||
This occurs by comparing percepts to ''hardwired patterns'' | |||
or by analyzing the ''mathematical or geometric beauty'' of the percepts, such as symmetry, smoothness, elegance, or more generally, ''simplicity''. | |||
The brain appears to prefer simplicity because it is ''easy to process'', a preference that appears to be common to many higher animals.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_3</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_fluency_theory_of_aesthetic_pleasure</ref><ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref></p> | |||
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Hardwired patterns come into play in ''sexually dimorphic beauty'' or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sex_characteristic secondary sex characteristic], which often involve seemingly arbitrary, exaggerated and specific features, such as large and firm female breasts<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23287</ref> or large penises, nose shapes (e.g. upturned nose in women), a robust mandible, protruding cheekbones, compact midface and hunter eyes in men ([[Millimeters of bone|few millimeters of bone]]), as well as dimples on back or cheeks, muscle tone, cleavage, thigh gap, abs crack, six pack (see also [[:Category:Aesthetics]]), and also complex coloration patterns and ornament in many sighted higher animals. | Hardwired patterns come into play in ''sexually dimorphic beauty'' or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sex_characteristic secondary sex characteristic], which often involve seemingly arbitrary, exaggerated and specific features, such as large and firm female breasts<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23287</ref> or large penises, nose shapes (e.g. upturned nose in women), a robust mandible, protruding cheekbones, compact midface and hunter eyes in men ([[Millimeters of bone|few millimeters of bone]]), as well as dimples on back or cheeks, muscle tone, cleavage, thigh gap, abs crack, six pack (see also [[:Category:Aesthetics]]), and also complex coloration patterns and ornament in many sighted higher animals. | ||