Beauty and ugliness in Olmec monumental sculpture

Olmec Bloodletting

and Middle Formative (ca. 1200-500 B.C.) Olmec symbol system is the focus of the present study.1 We have identified a series of symbols in largeand small-scale stone objects and ceramics representing perforators and a zoomorphic supernatural associated with bloodletting. While aspects of this iconography are comparable to later Classic Lowland Maya iconography of bloodletting, its deployment in...

The Effect of the Rule of Rational Beauty and Ugliness on the Moral Opinions of Khajeh Nasir al-Din Tusi

The present study seeks to examine the effect of the theological rule of “rational beauty and ugliness” on “moral opinions” in the field of philosophical ethics by exploring the two books “Purification of Belief” and “Nasirean Ethics” written by the famous scientist, Khajeh Nasir al-Din Tusi. This research has been done by content analysis method and its findings show that on the one hand, the ...

Beauty and ugliness in the bodies and faces of others: an fMRI study of person esthetic judgement.

Whether beauty and ugliness represent two independent judgement categories or, instead, opposite extremes of a single dimension is a matter of debate. In the present 3T-functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) study, 20 participants were scanned while judging faces and nude bodies of people classified as extremely ugly, extremely beautiful, or indifferent. Certain areas, such as the caudate...

Treatment of imagined ugliness

Greek dysmorphia, meaning ugliness (expressly of the face) was first coined by Morselli in the late19th century. He described a subjective feeling of a physical defect which the patient feels is noticeable to others, although his appearance is within normal limits. Dysmorphophobia first appeared in the US psychiatric nosology (as an atypical somatoform disorder) in 1980, with the publication of...

Does ugliness affect judgment ?