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Studies on newborns have found that human infants as young as 14 hours from birth prefer to look at attractive faces rather than unattractive faces. [15] [16] The preference also extends to non-human animals such as cats. [17] These findings indicate that lookism is an innate product of how the human visual system functions. [18]
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Selective recruitment is the notion that an individual selects their own strengths and the other's weaknesses when making peer comparisons, in order that they appear better on the whole. This theory was first tested by Weinstein (1980); however, this was in an experiment relating to optimistic bias, rather than the better-than-average effect ...
Universal fact: We all want to look better in pictures. A bad photo feels slightly akin to being caught naked. But news flash: “Photogenic” isn’t all genes—it also conveys a sense of ease ...
Photo manipulation has been used in advertisements for television commercials and magazines to make their products or the person look better and more appealing than how they look in reality. [62] Some tricks that are used with photo manipulation for advertising are: fake grill marks with eye-liner, using white glue instead of milk, or using ...
10 ways to make your skin look better in the new year, Miami dermatologist says. Leslie Baumann, M.D. January 7, 2023 at 6:00 AM.
In a world of filler, fake lashes and face lifts, celebrity makeup artist Kelli Anne Sewell prefers to focus on natural beauty. “I just love the look of skin. I think everyone’s individual. I ...
Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, [1] who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. Extended inspection or analysis (staring at the word or phrase for a long time) in place of repetition also produces the same effect.