Aesthetics

Categories: Aesthetics, Theories

'''Aesthetics''' is the study of [[beauty]].
== Understanding ==
A thorough understanding of human aesthetics will have these beneficial effects:

1) better understanding of [[female]] behavior. For example, it would help us answer these questions:
*Do [[women]] lie about not caring about [[looks]]?
**Answer: If you correctly rate the physical attractiveness of the [[men]] a woman [[Copulation|has sex]] with, it becomes obvious that looks play a large factor.
*Is she [[settling down]] with him or is it just a [[casual sex|casual fling]]?
**Answer: The more physically attractive the male is compared to the female, the more likely that it's a fling.
*Why do [[women]] treat obnoxious brutes so generously, while taking a [[nice guy]]'s kindness for weakness?
**Answer: The [[halo effect]] causes [[women]] to interpret the behavior from obnoxious brutes to be "sincere kindness" and to interpret the same behavior from "[[Nice guy|nice guys]]" to be "manipulative". For example, when a good-looking, popular [[jock]] is being [[Romantic idealization|romantic]] with a [[female]] (holding her hand; buying her drinks), he would be viewed as "nice" (as in genuinely caring about her). After all, he could get any females he wishes. He doesn't need to be romantic to get a female. The woman would conclude that his "[[romance]]" is the result of his genuine kindness. But when an ugly nerd is being romantic with a female, he would be viewed as "manipulative" (he's just faking an act to impress her; he's being romantic to compensate for his ugliness; he's worried about losing her; not because he genuinely cares about her).
2) better understanding of why evolution made us pick up some traits as attractive
==Applications of aesthetics==
*[[Plastic surgery]]
*[[Beauty]]
*[[Photo retouching]]
*[[Automated photo retouching]]
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