As beauty canons are slightly changing and adapt differently to cultures, we also tend, in the interests of economizing our cognitive energy and integrating ourselves into our social niche, to consider a woman attractive simply because many people considers her attractive. And that a large number of people consider a person beautiful usually has to … Read more
There are many reasons why we discriminate against others. Some are obvious, others not so much. Some receive a lot of media coverage, others are not even mentioned in the media. One of the most profound discrimination regarding family income and that is rarely taken into account is that related to physical appearance or beauty. … Read more
Internal images of ourselves can deviate from what others see and this can be affected by our beliefs about our personality and our self-esteem. Researchers at Bangor University’s School of Human and Behavioral Sciences have devised a way to access people’s mental image of themselves, and, for the first time, compare that image to reality … Read more