How to be More Attractive, with Science!
Channel: Travis Gilbert
Date: 2019-11-05

How to be more attractive... with science!
in which will be discussing beauty standards, self-perception, and attractiveness. Also visual perception!
#thescienceofattraction #psychologyfacts #kindness #attraction
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This is a selfie. it is not what I look like. Photos taken with selfie cameras can increase the size of your nose over 30%. 
Part of the reason we usually like a mirror reflection

But if you look at yourself in the mirror right now that is also not what you look like. 
As we’ve discussed before you along with your vision are biased. Your eyes take in light and the brain makes something out of it.
your brain doesn’t just want images.
 it wants images that make sense. 
The picture of the dress that stormed the internet in 2015 despite the majority of people thinking it was white and gold and the minority think it was black and blue 
Neither side was correct. It’s actually a kind of purple and dingy orange. But none of us can see that because given the white balance of the photo that doesn’t make sense to our brains.
Our perception is not reality 
And your self-perception is not who you really are.
You have only ever seen yourself through your own eyes. And when we only have one viewpoint take from that view can become a little extreme.

We want to make sense of our own image the same way. If you have a negative self-appraisal you will tend to see more flaws then the average person. And negative self-appraisal is what’s known as a vicious cycle you think you look bad. You look for flaws find them and then reinforce that initial belief.
But beauty or attractiveness is not just physical people who do act altruistically or who are kind are perceived as being more physically attractive by others. But not necessarily by themselves.
We are our own worst critics 
and the physical biases that you exhibit towards yourself are almost always harsher than the biases other people place on you.


if you lived in a different culture or period you would have a different view of yourself completely. Beauty is largely relative to time and place
The things that make people more attractive or kindness or altruism like Hellen Keller said the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched 

citation:
Presnell, Katherine; Bearman, Kate; and Madeley, Mary Clare. "Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescent Females and Males: Risk and Resilience." Prevention Researcher. Vol. 14. No. 3. September 2007. (Oct. 24, 2008)http://www.tpronline.org/article.cfm/Body_Dissatisfaction

Fostering a Positive Self-Image." The Cleveland Clinic. (Oct. 24, 2008)http://my.clevelandclinic.org/healthy_living/Mental_Health/hic_Fostering_a_Positive_Self-Image.aspx

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/mental-image2.htm

attribution
video from avatar the last Airbender
photo by Laura Caseley. https://www.littlethings.com/beauty-through-the-ages/