Corneal transplantation is the most common form of organ transplantation performed globally. However, of all organs, eyes have the highest rate of refusal of donation. This study explored the reasons why individuals decide whether or not to donate corneas. Twenty-one individuals were interviewed who had made a donation decision (13 refused corneal donation and eight consented). Analysis was per...

How do external stimuli and our internal state coalesce to create the distinctive aesthetic pleasures that give vibrance to human experience? Neuroaesthetics has so far focused on the neural correlates of observing beautiful stimuli compared to neutral or ugly stimuli, or on neural correlates of judging for beauty as opposed to other judgments. Our group questioned whether this approach is suff...

The female body is more than an anatomical form; it has come to represent everything that a woman is. Beauty is both a woman’s being and her worth. In “Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source,” Susan Sontag explores the contradictions and consequences inherent in modern standards of beauty. According to Sontag, beauty’s association with women has caused the depreciation of women, just as women...

As women's socioeconomic status and disposable income have increased, many women also a healthier more fashionable lifestyle. More begun to pay attention consumption in the fields of travel, beauty sport, now become an important force these fields. This article summarizes three tourism, sports, finally finds that field like shopping, relaxation activities, travel other methods can relieve stres...

Beauty standards and beauty norms contribute to strict expectations of what physical attractiveness is should be. Images white function oppressively toward other races their understandings beauty. In the context migratory fiction, relationship between race becomes central. The appropriation dominant group signals about immigrants’ eagerness follow rules accept norm receiving country. On hand, a...

n modern culture, beauty reigns supreme. Everywhere we look—whether it's magazines, TV shows or movies—beautiful people dominate. We aspire to be beautiful and if we're not, we are intrigued by the possibility of becoming so. Witness the popularity of shows such as "Extreme Makeover" and "Dr. 90210." Our quest for beauty isn't a modern obsession. Philosophers and poets chronicle the importance ...

Those who are physically attractive reap many benefits—from higher average wages to a wider variety of mate choices. Recent studies have investigated what constitutes beauty and how beauty affects explicit social judgments, but little is known about the perceptual or cognitive processing that is affected by aesthetic judgments of faces and why beauty affects our behavior. In this study, the aut...

Although human preference for beauty is common and compelling in daily life, it remains unknown whether such preference is essentially subserved by social cognitive demands or natural tendency towards beauty encoded in the human mind intrinsically. Here we demonstrate experimentally that humans automatically exhibit preference for visual and moral beauty without explicit cognitive efforts. Usin...