Physiognomy: Difference between revisions

The amygdala alerts in response to fear inducing, sexually arousing, and disgusting stimuli. Then a more modern area of the brain guesses as to what is causing the amygdala to be on high alert, sometimes these guesses are correct other times wrong. For example, most people are disgusted by the thought of licking someone else's feet, which is the correct response. However, some people are instead sexually aroused, an incorrect response. We have evolved to be very good guessers of these stimuli, above chance, due to natural selection. Since fear, disgust, and sexual arousal all put the amygdala on high alert, and extremely physically attractive man, covered in blood, holding a weapon (such as Patrick Bateman played by Christian Bale from the American Psycho movie) is extremely arousing to women, leading to [[hybristophilia]]. This technically is also true for men's attraction as well however women are not nearly as violently fear inducing, or morally disgusting, lessening the impact of hybrostiphilal arousal in men.