This paper explores the neglected ‘harms-to-others’ which result from increased attention to beauty, increased engagement in beauty practices and rising minimal beauty standards. In the first half of the paper I consider the dominant discourse of beauty harms – that of ethics and policy – and argue that this discourse has overfocused on the agency of, and possible harms to, recipients of beauty...

Over time, how does beauty develop and decay? Common sense suggests that beauty is intensely felt only after prolonged experience of the object. Here, we present one of various stimuli for a variable duration (1-30 s), measure the observers' pleasure over time, and, finally, ask whether they felt beauty. On each trial, participants (N = 21) either see an image that they had chosen as "movingly ...

The experience of beauty is a pleasure, but common sense and philosophy suggest that feeling beauty differs from sensuous pleasures such as eating or sex. Immanuel Kant [1, 2] claimed that experiencing beauty requires thought but that sensuous pleasure can be enjoyed without thought and cannot be beautiful. These venerable hypotheses persist in models of aesthetic processing [3-7] but have neve...

The Sleeping Beauty problem (Elga, 2000; see also Piccione and Rubinstein, 1997) is a philosophical dilemma related to conditional probability. It may be succinctly described as follows. Sleeping Beauty is put to sleep, and a fair coin (say, a nickel) is tossed. If the nickel shows heads, then Beauty is interviewed on Monday only, while if the nickel shows tails, Beauty is interviewed on both M...

The existence of a beauty premium in the labor market and the male–female wage gap suggests that appearance can matter in the real world. We explore beauty and gender in a public goods experiment and find similar effects. We find a beauty premium, even though beautiful people contribute, on average, no more or less than others. The beauty premium, however, disappears when we provide information...

Old age is defined variably in medical parlor. Blood pressure (BP) increases with age as a continuous variable. Hypertension is the single most attributable risk factor for death worldwide and accounts for considerable morbidity. Control of BP reverses this process. However, when to treat the elderly and how, is sometimes a confusing area. Due to high rates of comor bidities and drug adverse ef...

BACKGROUND Facial massage is an extremely popular form of beauty treatment and is thought to rejuvenate the skin. We decided to study the benefits and untoward effects of this form of facial beauty treatment. METHODS One hundred and forty-two women (aged 17-63 years), who had received facial beauty treatment in three well-established beauty parlours in New Delhi, were entered into the study a...

The concept of facial beauty has been defined in a variety of ways dating back to ancient times, and while the definition continues to develop, it has become clear that beauty crosses ethnic boundaries and has a significant cultural and economic impact. Subconsciously, beauty is perceived by humans as a sign of favorable genes and increased fertility, both of which play a role in mate selection...

I report, for the CDF and D0 collaborations, results from the 92-93 Tevatron Collider run concerning charm and beauty quark production and beauty meson decay properties.