We measure the impact of individuals’ looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using four data sets, the Quality of American Life surveys from the 1970s, the British National Child Development Study, and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey, we construct the beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty. Personal beauty raises happiness, wit...

Notions of beauty have evolved through history and are culture-specific. In the Western world one concept which has been linked to beauty is that of kalokagathía, an ideal that unites physical beauty and moral value in a human being. This notion was inherited from Antiquity and was modified during the Middle Ages, when much more attention was paid to the fate of the soul, and further modified d...

According to Christopher Alexander’s theory of centers, a whole comprises numerous, recursively defined centers for things or spaces surrounding us. Wholeness is a type of global structure or life-giving order emerging from the whole as a field of the centers. The wholeness is an essential part of any complex system and exists, to some degree or 10 other, in spaces. This paper defines wholeness...

A growing literature claims beautiful workers receive higher wages. Using five nationallevel surveys, we find that in multivariate regression models there is no beauty premium. Most beauty coefficients are statistically insignificant, even in replications of published work. Simple model alterations, such as clustering on the primary sampling unit or redefining other covariates, eliminate much o...

Beauty is described by notions such as attractiveness, loveliness, exquisiteness, and splendor, while human-beings experience beauty in response to visual and auditory stimuli as embedded in open systems that co-evolve with the environment in which they are immersed (Cook et al., 2014). Shared experiences of beauty are considered as exceptionally intense forms of communication, thereby connecti...

the special workshop of research on tehran was held in the second conference of the phenomenology of the urban landscape as “public space aesthetic “at the museum of contemporary art in tehran. visit of dr. “martine bouchier” from tehran and her interpretations on some parts of the city can be considered a chance for evaluating the approaches and intervening methods of beautification in tehran....

This paper explores the specific criticism of directed altruistic living organ donation that it creates a 'beauty contest' between potential recipients of organs. The notion of the beauty contest in transplantation was recently used by Neidich et al who stated that '[a]ltruism should be the guiding motivation for all donations, and when it [is], there is no place for a beauty contest'. I examin...

Women's ability to broadly conceptualize beauty (i.e., perceive many looks, appearances, body sizes/shapes, and inner characteristics as beautiful) has been identified as a facet of positive body image in qualitative research. A scale is needed to be able to assess this construct within quantitative research. Therefore, we developed the Broad Conceptualization of Beauty Scale (BCBS), which meas...

Using data from representative samples of the Australian population in the 1980s and 2000s we make two main contributions to analysis of the economic effects of beauty. First, we broaden analysis of the effects of beauty beyond the labour market to examine its relation to household income. We find that beauty significantly affects total household income – primarily via respondents’ probability ...

We evaluate two competing accounts of the relationship between beauty and category structure. According to the similarity-based view, beauty arises from category structure such that central items are favored due to their increased fluency. In contrast, the theory-based view holds that people's theories of beauty shape their perceptions of categories. In the present study, subjects learned to ca...