Over time, how does beauty develop and decay? Common sense suggests that beauty is intensely felt only after prolonged experience of the object. Here, we present one of various stimuli for a variable duration (1-30 s), measure the observers' pleasure over time, and, finally, ask whether they felt beauty. On each trial, participants (N = 21) either see an image that they had chosen as "movingly ...

The experience of beauty is a pleasure, but common sense and philosophy suggest that feeling beauty differs from sensuous pleasures such as eating or sex. Immanuel Kant [1, 2] claimed that experiencing beauty requires thought but that sensuous pleasure can be enjoyed without thought and cannot be beautiful. These venerable hypotheses persist in models of aesthetic processing [3-7] but have neve...

The Sleeping Beauty problem (Elga, 2000; see also Piccione and Rubinstein, 1997) is a philosophical dilemma related to conditional probability. It may be succinctly described as follows. Sleeping Beauty is put to sleep, and a fair coin (say, a nickel) is tossed. If the nickel shows heads, then Beauty is interviewed on Monday only, while if the nickel shows tails, Beauty is interviewed on both M...

The existence of a beauty premium in the labor market and the male–female wage gap suggests that appearance can matter in the real world. We explore beauty and gender in a public goods experiment and find similar effects. We find a beauty premium, even though beautiful people contribute, on average, no more or less than others. The beauty premium, however, disappears when we provide information...

Abstract The use of stone in traditional architecture represents one the most relevant links between geological and cultural heritage. As a topic general interest easily understandable to all public, this link is guiding thread for touristic routes mitigating depopulation trend that affects large inland rural areas, including many areas UNESCO Global Geoparks (UGGp). In northwest Spain, Courel ...

The potential supply of ecosystem services is often assessed using land cover data. Assessment actual use by beneficiaries remains less covered and assumed to be congruent with supply. However, we believe that contribute the sustainable management multifunctional landscapes, more insights are needed on links between landscape characteristics various facets services. In this paper, assess cultur...

Purpose This study/paper aims to evaluate the floral richness of central part Chattogram city, Bangladesh. is recognized as largest port city and commercial capital Bangladesh, which confronts faster urbanization swift infrastructure development. Green spaces in around are shrinking sharply, resulted rapid loss faunal resources this area. The present study was carried out from February 2018 Jan...

Ecosystems provide life-sustaining services upon which human civilization depends, but their degradation largely continues unabated. Spatially explicit information on ecosystem services (ES) provision is required to better guide decision making, particularly for mountain systems, which are characterized by vertical gradients and isolation with high topographic complexity, making them particular...

BACKGROUND Facial massage is an extremely popular form of beauty treatment and is thought to rejuvenate the skin. We decided to study the benefits and untoward effects of this form of facial beauty treatment. METHODS One hundred and forty-two women (aged 17-63 years), who had received facial beauty treatment in three well-established beauty parlours in New Delhi, were entered into the study a...

The concept of facial beauty has been defined in a variety of ways dating back to ancient times, and while the definition continues to develop, it has become clear that beauty crosses ethnic boundaries and has a significant cultural and economic impact. Subconsciously, beauty is perceived by humans as a sign of favorable genes and increased fertility, both of which play a role in mate selection...