Date: 19/02/2014 10:48:19
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 491381
Subject: Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces
ScienceShot: Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces
You probably saw dozens of people’s faces today, many more if you live in a city. You may not have been conscious of it, but you were subtly judging every one by its beauty. Your eyes are drawn to more attractive faces, and the almost inescapable result is that more attractive people have advantages in almost every aspect of life, from job interviews to prison sentencing. But what drives us to crave beauty?
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Date: 19/02/2014 20:59:08
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 491756
Subject: re: Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces
I see the TV ads showing a beautiful woman in a bikini with the words “skin cells in trauma”.
And my reaction is. “Mmmm trauma”.
Date: 19/02/2014 22:04:57
From: transition
ID: 491817
Subject: re: Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces
http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2014/02/scienceshot-brain-rewards-us-looking-pretty-faces
“The findings …..”
I suspect the answer is quite well known amongst those that should know.
Date: 21/02/2014 10:20:17
From: transition
ID: 492618
Subject: re: Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces
If you start with some features of youth people tend to equate with health, then extract some rough mechanisms that probably equate with ‘fitness’, I think some of the answer will be in this.