The influence of human aesthetic appreciation of animal species on public attitudes towards their conservation and related decision-making has been studied in industrialized countries but remains underexplored in developing countries. Working in three agropastoralist communities around Amboseli National Park, southern Kenya, we investigated the relative strength of human aesthetic appreciation ...

In recent years, various studies have attempted to understand human evolution by examining relationships between athletic performance or physical fitness and facial attractiveness. Over a wide range of five homogeneous groups (n = 327), there is an approximate 3% shared variance between facial attractiveness and athletic performance or physical fitness (95% CI = 0.5-8%, p = 0.002). Further, stu...

Is there an objective, biological basis for the experience of beauty in art? Or is aesthetic experience entirely subjective? Using fMRI technique, we addressed this question by presenting viewers, naïve to art criticism, with images of masterpieces of Classical and Renaissance sculpture. Employing proportion as the independent variable, we produced two sets of stimuli: one composed of images of...

male faces do not suggest that the bearer will place Bethesda, Maryland 20892 considerable investment in parental input. Indeed, men with symmetrical faces are less likely to accept fidelity and will invest less time with offspring. When consider-Facial beauty is an honest signal of the genotypic and ing paternity, men with facial characteristics that signal phenotypic quality of the bearer. Be...

This paper aims to explore the body aesthetic myth in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Body is a rich object of inquiry discussion aesthetics art and literature. In case this fictional work, problem seen Pecola, protagonist novel, who feels herself ugly desires for blue eyes. has adopted concepts Immanuel Kant as an approach novel. differentiates pleasure beautiful from other pleasures, by claim...

Gender may be involved in the motivational processing of facial beauty. This study applied a behavioral probe, known to activate brain motivational regions, to healthy heterosexual subjects. Matched samples of men and women were administered two tasks: (a) key pressing to change the viewing time of average or beautiful female or male facial images, and (b) rating the attractiveness of these ima...