Just My Imagination: Beauty premium and the evolved mental model
- PMID: 28327245
- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X16000583
Just My Imagination: Beauty premium and the evolved mental model
Abstract
Imagination, an important feature of the human mind, may be at the root of the beauty premium. The evolved human capacity for simulating the real world, developed as an adaptation to a complex social environment, may offer the key to understanding this and many other aspects of human behavior.
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Moving forward with interdisciplinary research on attractiveness-related biases.Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan;40:e45. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1600090X. Behav Brain Sci. 2017. PMID: 28327254
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Explaining financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive people: Interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology.Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan;40:e19. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16000340. Epub 2016 Jun 10. Behav Brain Sci. 2017. PMID: 27283466 Review.
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