In the Brain of the Beholder? The Principles of Beauty and Sex Appeal
What constitutes human facial beauty and bodily attractiveness? How do these traits connect with health, fertility, and parental fitness? Differences across time and culture in the attributes that are attractive will be outlined and suggestions made as to what accounts for these variations.
Professor Glenn D. Wilson is one of Britain's best-known psychologists. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programmes and has published more than 150 scientific articles and 33 books. He is an expert on individual differences; social and political attitudes; sexual behaviour, deviation and dysfunction; and psychology applied to the performing arts.
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| In the Brain of the Beholder? The Principles of Beauty and Sex Appeal |
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