enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. How people define beauty in 19 different countries - AOL

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/2014-06-27-how-people...

    Ester Honig, a human interest reporter, sent out a photograph of herself to 40 different photo editors in 25 different countries and gave them a single task -- to make her look beautiful.

  3. Physical attractiveness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness

    In the late sixteenth century, Japanese people considered epicanthic folds to be beautiful. [ 217 ] A study that used Russian, American, Brazilian, Aché , and Hiwi raters, found that the only strong distinguisher between men and women's faces was wider eyes relative to facial height for women, and this trait consistently predicted ...

  4. Physical attractiveness stereotype - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness...

    The physical attractiveness stereotype was first formally observed in a study done by Karen Dion, Ellen Berscheid, and Elaine Walster in 1972. [1] The goal of this study was to determine whether physical attractiveness affected how individuals were perceived, specifically whether they were perceived to have more socially desirable personality traits and quality of life.

  5. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aesthetics

    The beautiful is defined as the ideal showing itself to sense or through a sensuous medium. It is said to have its life in show or semblance (Schein) and so differs from the true, which is not really sensuous, but the universal idea contained in sense for thought. The form of the beautiful is unity of the manifold.

  6. Beauty - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty

    Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy. [3] [4] Beauty is usually categorized as an aesthetic property besides other properties, like grace, elegance or the sublime.

  7. Ancient aesthetics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_aesthetics

    Aesthetics is defined as the perception of art, design or beauty. [2] Aesthetics is derived from the Greek word "aisthetikos" [3] defined as a perception of the senses.In aesthetics, there is a process of individual analysis, perception and imagination. [4]

  8. Circassian beauty - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_beauty

    The concept of Circassian beauty is an ethnic stereotype of the Circassian people. A fairly extensive literary history suggests that Circassian women were thought to be unusually attractive, spirited, smart, and elegant. Therefore, they were seen as mentally and physically desirable for men. [1] [2] [3]

  9. Café society - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Café_society

    Café society was the description of the "Beautiful People" and "Bright Young Things" who gathered in fashionable cafés and restaurants in New York, Paris and London beginning in the late 19th century. Maury Henry Biddle Paul is credited with coining the phrase "café society" in 1915.