definition of what humans think is beautiful?

Question

i'm taking psychology this year and we learned about the human face and what really makes a person beautiful. it was proven that babies can determin what is beautiful from something that isn't as beautiful. they would stare at a beautiful person for at least 20 seconds while they would look at the other person for about 3 seconds. does aybody have a picture of the human face and what is NOW considered beautiful by all humans? i know it changes.

and i know that loving somebody can make them beautiful but i'm talking about beauty, not love

monroe and julia roberts (i think it was her) were considered beautiful. a sketch was drawn and you might not think their faces are similiar, but they both fit over the sketch perfectly, as well as halle berry. they shared a lot of the same traits

by the way, i'm talking about psychology. this has been an actual study about what we think is beautiful and why. contrary to popular belief, just because you love somebody doesn't mean that they are beautiful. end of story.

Answer 1

Fashion does, indeed, change, but the basic concept of beauty doesn't.

Beauty is defined by regularity, and absence of abnormailties. Seriously.

The reason why we think so is not so surprising, if you think about it: it is (more or less!) proof that the subject (whether it be a piece of fruit or a face) is without disease or genetic defect, good indications that the subject is safe to be near, if a person, or to consume, if food.

Answer 2

Beauty is probably a harmonious blend of form and function. The face is part of the whole head and so participates in the functions of the head. Since the head can be considered the command center or control center for most functions within the whole body, then it seems beauty must also be associated with regulation, modulation, intelligence and the like. So, like many other states experienced by humans, it must be considered dynamical. It resolves many functions at once. Several proportions work as an ensemble to compose the way the face has formed. There can be different styles of beauty just as there are different styles of beautiful music. And yet the notes, the intervals or proportions among frequencies are arranged differently piece by piece and so, analogously, individual by individual.

In my work I have found that the golden number (phi) is always present when beauty manifests. But the golden number does not manifest just by itself. It is always present within the context of other important proportional ratios, like the octave (2:1), the 5th (3:2), the 4th (4:3), the Minor 3rd (6/5) and so forth. The list of important ratios which appear in human biometrics is surprisingly long. On the other hand it could also be much longer. I do not believe there are an infinite number of significant ratios which compose that elusive quality we call beauty. But the ratios themselves often express infinite values!!!

One relationship worth emphasizing in the experience of beauty is the primal relation between the 'head' and the 'heart'. A beautiful voice, a beautiful face, a beautiful animal, a beautiful child, a beautiful piece of music, all must awaken the heart, the mind and the senses together. What makes the 'object' beautiful is that somehow the combined effect of all the different components that have been resolved exceed an analysis of the whole. Beauty cannot be reduced to analysis. Even when one finds the golden number, or the Major 5th, or the octave present, still, by definition beauty eludes a decomposition of the whole into parts. In this sense, beauty definitely combines many things at once in a harmonious way. The golden number may be the ultimate harmonizer.

However, real beauty always seems to be a bit flawed. I do not think real beauty - resonant beauty - can be equated with perfection. Perfection is rarely achieveable. It is an ideal that is more abstract than living beauty. The beauty that really gets the heart - really affects us - is inevitably marrred in some way. It is the blemish that 'wounds the heart' so to speak and sets in motion the very emotions upon which beauty is born and experienced. Great beauty seems to open the heart as if the heart were a gate or portal onto a dimension that is infinite. In some significant way this dimension is spiritual in feel and appears to be a state that is registered by the heart even if the senses and the cognitive faculties have been focused by the beautiful thing. So beauty is innate and seems to be common to all of us at a fundamental substratum of our being. Perhaps gratitude surpasses beauty in the end especially if the beauty has attained the form of a revelation. A revelation is not an abstraction. It is a concrete experience that overflows the container within which it was born - whether that container be the head or the heart. Real beauty seems to overflow both!

B. Lyons

Answer 3

Beauty is in the eyes of beholders. Have you see the classic show of twilight zone. Pig face people can be beautiful. It depends on how you look at it. If you are born in the norm, you will think that human faces are pretty and beautiful. However, on the contrary, you think deeper, sometimes human looked weird. comparing to alien thinkings. 2 eyes, 1 nose and 1 mouth. Just because we followed the norm and we think that is acceptable. However, if you see a person with only 1 eye, you will find it ugly or weird.

Sometimes, when you look closer of a ugly man/woman, he/she will turn out to be the most beautiful people, same as beautiful people, they may turn out to be ugly ones.

Answer 4

Beauty is an inverse proportion to the fear we feel or generate at that time: the more fear we have the less beauty we may percieve. This is why intensely paranoid people tend to be more violent or withdrawn from others and less happy. Typically some kind of fiction or superstition accompanies paranoia. The greater the range of kinds of things that are included in the paranoids list, the less beauty is sensed.

'Fear robbed me of my ability to appreciate beauty, peace and contentment.'

Beauty is spiritual, not objectively sensitive but subjectively understood as the prize of spiritual struggle and social liberation. The sick mind is oppressed of itself but if oppression is objectively true, then it is sick WITH itself in the facts of its life and others under the same oppression. The beautiful oppressor is ugly for the oppressed, until stockholm syndrom, but that is equally argueably sickness as it is not sickness.

Answer 5

Obviously, u r talking about physical not spiritual beauty. I know there are ratio and proportions of a face to be considered perfect beauty. I just don't know the specs.

Answer 6

I think that some of the classic females like moroe and hepburn,or males ,james dean ,steve mqueen. But if you actually look at the faces they are not that attractive. well maybe to me anyway but i think is mainly because faces in history have the story behind them,and people find another decade attractive. i also think its the way two people look at each other...when we are in love or are attracted to a person our pupils dialate and that send massages to the brain to make us think they are attractive.

Answer 7

looking at the person you love makes the face beautiful

Answer 8

I'm in second year psych. I learned that people with symetrical faces that are feminine looking tend to be considered more attractive.

Answer 9

there's been studies demonstrating that faces that are perfectly symmetrical are considered more attractive (to babies and adults). there are other more complicated dimensions that have been calculated by "beauty" experts, but I cant remember them off the top of my head.

Answer 10

I am just going to refer you to the trite quote: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."