Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff

Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty



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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780385479424
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Page: 325


There appear to be “two faces of beauty,” she has said. "Beauty, after all, is evolutionary," says Harvard psychology professor Nancy Etcoff, who is the author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty — not coincidentally a best seller in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and China. Product DescriptionIn this provocative, witty, and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, Nancy Etcoff skewers one of our. Description In this provocative, witty, and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, Nancy Etcoff skewers one of our culture's most enduring myths, that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior. Nancy Etcoff, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School and author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, seems to have found the truth in both positions. The liaison between the beauty therapy industry and other professions such as dermatologists and cosmetic surgeons, is becoming significantly more important. Even in a fake way, it will indirectly lift your mood," which makes you feel safe and relaxed, says Nancy Etcoff, clinical instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty (Anchor). Scientific developments have proven that this wasp-waist served an evolutionary, as well as social, purpose originating in the desire to attract and 'find a mate'. Nancy Etcoff, the author of the eye-opening book Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, believes that the reason we're so preoccupied with our looks has to do with one basic factor: sex. I've speculated a bit about the place of beauty in the universe universe (“A Science of Beauty,” Part I and Part II) and was happy to find that thinkers like Rothenberg are also helping to blaze this necessary trail. And now a recent study proves that human beings are hard wired to actually prefer beautiful people. Ectoff, Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, (New York: Random House, 2000), p.71. In Survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff writes that '[e]volutionary psychologists suggest that men are automatically excited by signs of a woman who is fertile, healthy, and hasn't been pregnant before. "Our sensitivity to beauty is hard-wired -- that is, governed by circuits in the brain shaped by natural selection," says Nancy Etcoff, author of "Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty".





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