A study about appearance and beauty.

[RhinoP]

This one's about the area of the brain that activates when we see a beautiful painting, beautiful tone of music, or a beautiful human face. It goes on to say that this region of the brain is responsible for judging potential romantic partners and that while beauty is sometimes in the eye of the beholder, that visions considered "ugly" to the specific viewer causes them to have no activation, emotion, or empathy (and yet sometimes negative feelings) toward a face or visual.

http://www.livescience.com/14932-beauty-perception-brain.html

LiveScience is usually respectable and thurough about these things, they generally only accept published studies by esteemed universities and then "summarize" the findings in an article. They are a great website for common-sense answers to life's social mysteries, they are very focused on psychology and human behavior. I rarely read anything on there that I haven't already studied in a hardcore sense, but the site really condenses the work for those (like me) who also do just enjoy browsing through and feeling confident that major misconceptions are being corrected on a daily basis.

[Anatta]

Kia Ora,

Remove the skin from the person whom one perceives as "beautiful" and one will find beauty is only "skin" deep...
Never judge a book by it's cover alone [the cover's just superficial] ...It's what lies "within" what counts...

Metta Zenda

[Annah]

Kia Ora,

Remove the skin from the person whom one perceives as "beautiful" and one will find beauty is only "skin" deep...
Never judge a book by it's cover alone [the cover's just superficial] ...It's what lies "within" what counts...

Metta Zenda

Agree with you Metta

Beauty is so much more than just what's on the skin or the surface. True beauty transcends just the face and goes deep into one's "soul"

Because someone has a pretty face does not automatically make them beautiful.....not even close.

[Lady_J]

I agree that you can't judge a book by its cover but given the choice to be beautiful, average or unattractive I'd choose beautiful handsdown.  On a realistic note, however, I will never be what is considered beautiful.  I was a nice looking guy and though I passed in my younger days as female I have since put on the middleage spread, gotten the usual bags and sags and though I don't frighten old ladies or little children I'm not a ''stunner'' either.  I currently care for someone who needs me 24/7 so for me ffs is in the future followed by a facelift and whatever cosmetic procedures I can get to help me attain the look of a nice looking lady who appears younger than her true age.  I'm not vain.  My goal is to simply fit into society. 

[RhinoP]

I agree that everyone deserves to have their own opinion about what is sexually attractive and beautiful to the human mind, however the nature of a published study usually involves facts proven by scientific means; if anyone has any published studies they could share proving that a human being is able to ignore the outside appearance of another in any context, I truly would like to see it; I believe every study should be given the opportunity to be confronted with another.

What I personally like about the study above is that it indeed said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that physical image is not ignorable to the human mind. It specifically says that human beings judge physical objects, including human faces, based on physical features, and depending on wether the judge finds the object of interest as beautiful or not effects the empathy and excitement levels in the judge's mind.

Here's another great article which quotes a couple esteemed professionals, and the entire article covers a lot of ground and makes a lot of sense: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/what-makes-a-face-beautiful-2508539/

[heatherrose]

"I have a dream that my [eight grandbabies] will one day live in a [world] where
they will not be judged by the [primary sexual characteristic they are assigned by birth],
but by the content of their character."

[tekla]

beauty is only "skin" deep.

Yeah, but ugly goes through the soul and all the way down to the bone.