What Is Beauty

• What is beauty? Others help define it... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16661766/
• Women are more attracted to a man if other women like him too. Said U. of Aberdeen psychology Ben Jones, "women to become more attracted to the men who were being smiled at by other women". However males reached in the opposite way to men who received male smiles, possibly indicating jealousy or competition.
• The findings, which are reported in The Proceedings of The Royal Society B, are similar to mate choice copying seen in other species and are thought to be the first time it has been shown in humans.
• Built in radar for beauty... Our receptiveness to beauty is primal. "Averageness" has also been found as a key to beauty.
• Study published in the journal Perception last year, scientists put adults and children to the attractiveness test and found that “a highly attractive face facilitates quick and accurate sex classification.” In other words, the more average a woman’s face was, the more attractive it seemed.
• Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis exposed hundreds of women to a variety of imagery, including violent and erotic imagery, and they consistently found that erotic imagery provoked the most powerful responses, even more powerful than the violent imagery.
• Women’s brains processed the erotic images about 20 percent faster than any other type, and they appeared to be processed in entirely different brain structures. It was just so fast, so innate, so easy.
• Article by Brian Alexander, who is a California-based writer who covers sex, relationships and health.

• Related:
• Why beauty is in the eye of the beholder - Cultural images influence our perception of attractiveness - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15098830/
• we like familiar things. We come to anticipate how things are supposed to look by seeing prototypes. Then, when we encounter something that resembles the prototype, our brains don’t have to work too hard to recognize and process it.
• “What you like is a function of what your mind has been trained on,” Winkielman says.
• Piotr Winkielman of the University of California at San Diego
• Easy on the eyes? Maybe on the brain, too - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15044105/
• Sexy people play the symmetry card - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16547251/
• Past studies seemed to show that people look at human faces in search of cues as to how likely a person would be to make a healthy baby
• This is probably why a study last year from the University of Michigan showed that people who watched sexy TV programs could not recall much about what was advertised on those programs. (In this case, that lack of recall held for violent programs, too.)
• Our brains shut out all other input when we are faced with an erotic scenario.
• Advertising mistake? Carl's Jr. having Paris Hilton in a swimsuit washing a car to sell hamburgers.