beauty is in the eye of the beholder bro

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Despite research on social consequences, exactly what it is that makes a face beautiful remains poorly defined. One of the major deterrents in determining the features of an attractive face lies in the widespread belief that standards of attractiveness are learned gradually through exposure to culturally presented ideals (e.g. through the media in Western society) and this has also led to a general belief that cultures vary dramatically in what they perceive to be attractive [18]. If this were true, it would mean that attractive- ness is arbitrary and what is beautiful now could, in a different time or place, be considered unattractive.

its so funny how one groups arguments hinge on anecdotes and this arrogant idea that beauty cannot be the ultimate determinant of a persons quality of life merely because the idea that it could be so is ostensibly unfair. lmao. so many people cant even begin to come to terms with the fact that we are living in a deeply brutal society that couldnt care less about fairness

this politically correct view of beauty is to some extent false. In fact, agreement between individ- uals is one of the best-documented and most robust findings in facial attractiveness research since the 1970s. Across many studies it has been found that there is a high degree of agreement from individuals within a particular culture and also high agreement between individuals from different cultures (see [2] for a meta-analytical review). If different people can agree on which faces are attractive and which are not attractive when judging faces of varying ethnic back- ground (e.g. [23]), then this suggests that people everywhere are all using the same, or at least similar, criteria in their judgements.

Cross-cultural agreement on attractiveness is evidence against the notion that attractiveness ideals are slowly absorbed by those growing up within a particular culture and this suggests that there is something universal about attractive faces (and unattractive faces) that is recognized both across individuals and culture

Little, A. C.; Jones, B. C.; DeBruine, L. M. - Anna’s Archive

The Royal Society (ISSN 0080-4622) Philosophical Transactions Biological Sciences, #1571, 366, pages 1638-1659, 2011 jun 12 scihub/10.1098/rstb.2010.0404.pdf

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