* Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Rhodora”
* Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye. ~Grey Livingston
It is a natural desire to be popular among society, but it is a common behavior that beautirul or attractive persons get the attention very quickly. What are the qualities which make a person attractive or beautiful?
We have many questions in mind when we compare attractive and non-attractive personalities. Which things make humans attractive and socially popular?
How being beautiful can help you get favours in social percpects?
You can find many answers at “Beauty check”
You will find plenty of information on a large research project on ‘facial attractiveness’ that has been carried out at the universities of Regensburg and Rostock in Germany.
You can find out about:
- why some faces are more beautiful than others
- how scienctists help unravel the mystery of beauty and
- the dangerous relationship between a beautiful body and social power
Recent research has shown that in fact all people seem to have similar ideas about what constitutes an attractive face. We all seem to judge faces in the same way – but why and how does this work? And what social consequences might this have?
During a long-term research project at the Universities of Regensburg and Rostock (Germany), we have tried to find answers to questions like these. We questioned why some faces seem more attractive than others; and we did experiments on social perception, that is: we tried to find out about the social qualities attributed to faces of specific attractiveness.
Read more: Beautycheck – Causes and Consequences of Human Facial Attractiveness (Summary)
There are many related research studies, one of them is about ‘Social perception’ and provides answers to these questions like, Do attractive people have any advantages?
Are they treated better than less attractive? Is it important to look good on an application photo?
In short studies offers the short answer: “According to our investigations the answer to these questions is yes. We could show that people are perceived more positively the more attractive they are.”
For full report: Social Perception
Site link: “Beauty check”
And now few more quotes about beauty:
* Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Kahlil Gibran
* That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. ~Ninon de L’Enclos
* It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy
* As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
* Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
* Beauty… is the shadow of God on the universe. ~Gabriela Mistral, Desolacíon
* Beauty – in projection and perceiving – is 99.9% attitude. ~Grey Livingston
