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The psychology of beauty in humans
Introduction
Beauty is an aspect to which human beings relates to the quality of life. It is more than the attractiveness of a fellow human being but encompassed even to the material things. These include houses, clothes, cars, and other forms of machinery among other things. For something to be termed as beautiful, it requires meeting a combination of various qualities. The study aims at identifying the psychology of beauty among humans.
The perception of beauty among people
Beauty has been recognized as a subjective aspect among the people. However, there is the degree of commonly appreciated things surrounding life. According to Darwinian Theory of Beauty, the utility attached to the beautiful things relates to the evolution traits of the humans. It is that what people are living a century ago thought to be beautiful may not be thought the same today.
Studies indicate that Culture and religion as attributes of man’s life influence beauty in their unique way. It is held that religions support that every human is beautiful. According to Christians human beings are created in the image of God; hence, one is supposed to see all human in the beauty of God. Dutton (p, 176) explains that the values of life in each particular time a society is facing contribute to shaping the beauty of things both the way they appear and in people’s minds.
Concerning the human evolution and beauty, the illusionist elaborates that, the current western images fails to respect beauty regarding cultural and biological realities. Vyvyan (p 233) offers an explanation to this as the will of human to enhance that which they wish would be accepted more, and the need to create something that which meets their imagination as to why the as media embody on exaggerated images.
Looks identifies as the physical appearance and the core attribute of concern among people when identifying beauty. Pam Belluck in her article “Yes looks do matter” stipulates that it is human nature to judge beauty by the looks, and it involves an instant aspect of putting people into impersonal classifications.
Work cited
“The illusionist” https://seattlecentral-kanopystreaming-com.ez.sccd.ctc.edu/video/illusionists-film-about-globalization-beauty
“Yes, Looks Do Matter": http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/fashion/26looks.html (Links to an external site.)
Darwinian Theory of Beauty" https://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty?language=en
Dutton, Denis. The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009. Print.
Vyvyan, John. Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2013. Internet resource.
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