How your brain decides what is beautiful | Anjan Chatterjee
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- Anjan Chatterjee uses tools from evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study one of nature's most captivating concepts: beauty. Learn more about the science behind why certain configurations of line, color and form excite us in this fascinating, deep look inside your brain.
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"Why don't you get a girlfriend?"
"It all started in Pleistocene..."
how could this comment not gets a thousand likes???
@@ender5036 thanks bro, your comment is worth all of them.
Let me remind you of your genius about this comment, sir.
@@Moonlight-ju4qi thank you kind sir!
I forgot about this video... Time to rewatch!
factors considered to be beautiful-
1.mixed race
2.symmetry
3.hormones-facial features
4.health-reproductive
Its important to add "As a general rule" he failed to highlight this.
Beauty is also something you develop and this only deals with first contact beauty.
Is there a study or survey anywhere that shows people are more attracted to mixed race faces?
@thomas anderson wrong 😂 in so many level
@thomas anderson we were molded to think that white people are the most beautiful ethnicity by social media
@@sheshomaru6799 He's right though.
Stop lying to yourself.
Everyone's brain concludes that I'm ugly.
kulik03 that's because your brain concludes that your ugly...what you feel is what you see;)
Conrad Ambrossi
Only like 20% true.
Same.
DISLIKE
Same. But the fact that you can admit that proves you’re really not as ugly as you seem
the red, green, orange preference example was awesome
Thats Deep & For Real Today
i didnt understood
@@salih8586 same hahahuhu
My biology teacher explained this to the class :)) best teacher ever, also a she is big fan of carl sagan
What a luck, my teacher teach me Harun Yahya btw
@@mangyana4571 My teacher didn't teach.
Anyone who loves Carl Sagan has such an intriguing & marvelous perspective of beauty in the universe 💯
Symmetry is something like comfort not the thing that excites our senses but rather a point of reference.
The more sensitive to beauty you are the more you enjoy asymmetry.
Like people who enjoy complex music trained their ears to appreciate more & more dissonant chords.
Today's mainstream media produce more comfort than beauty be it in music or in beauty magazine. Since science as got into the matter of beauty it has been industrialized and vulgarized.
This is just my observation that I base on both scientific studies and personal philosophy.
This man cleared my biggest question of life
the purpose of your life?
BlackPill
The way he talks is so relaxing. I'm going to replay this thing to sleep. ❤
That wasn't supposed to be so
Your brain decided it's beautiful. 📝
Actually smooth voices are commonly seen as such.
Please
It isn’t for that that guy is a scientist and this is a scientific presentation on ted talk. If you want to sleep download a meditation app
@@annarousiadou784lol…okay, karen
Attraction is only a part of recognition of beauty.
Why do we water flowers and not weeds?. Nature displays beauty and harsh and in amazing ways. And humans which are the construct of everything mother nature has worked to achieve. Has all the characteristics of beauty and harsh characteristics of beauty that mother nature has.
This video should be called "How your brain decides what is ATTRACTIVE"
When I read the word "Beautiful", art, nature, the night sky, combinations of colors, sensations, sounds, architecture, etc. came to my mind. Kind of disappointed when I watched a video based just on attractiveness.
Yeah, I got what you mean.
I am looking for paintings and music now... and I found this. You hit my problem.
Same!!
Beauty is the intuition for the pattern of perfect being/existence
Can u explain little simpler?
@@PiyushKumar-ie8pg please
Great Talks and lots of clarity on how Beauty plays a key role in our life.
BTW as a Bengali, I'm very proud of Anjan Chatterjee.
I don't know why but I find guys with facial asymmetry more attractive and interesting to look at, so they are beautiful for me. It seems that they have more character and mystery.
You ara a Sapiophile.
Cope
It is my turn woho
7:55 this is such an important concept in evolutionary psychology that is constantly overlooked. The distinction between the proximate cause and the ultimate cause. To often people confuse the inherent arbitrary liking of something to some cognitive extrinsic desire for survival.
can you explain in simple words
@@Ak-in5cu Sure. I think that a big problem with how most people think of the evolution, is that they believe that people like what they like because of survival.
For example, people often phrase the evolution of sexual desire (especially for animals) in such a way where they say stuff like “they look for the most suitable mate, who is healthy and will produce many offspring.” I believe this is false. I believe that evolution causes animals and people are o have certain preferences, but that within the mind of people and animals, there is no consideration of survival, and that these preferences just exist as basic desires in the mind, which have no deeper reason for why they have them, other than that they simply have them.
Here is another example. When a person is hungry, they simply want to eat food, just to stop the pain of hunger, and to feel the pleasure of eating. The reason these desires exist is because of evolution caused them to appear. Obviously food is necessary, so people evolved a strong preference to want to eat food. Despite this, people do not eat food because they desire to survive and prolong their existence. This is obvious when you consider that there are many people who eat enough food to become unhealthy and obese. Despite knowing it is unhealthy, and that it is not helping with survival, many obese people still want to eat food, simply because it feels good to do so, and it is painful not to do so.
All of this demonstrates that, psychologically, people do not like what they like, and dislike what they dislike, for survival reasons, despite the fact that these preference exist because they help with evolutionary survival.
So if you're ugly, you're not only ugly, you'll also treated bad and everybody will think you're bad... :(
Sad to say YES . . .
Really interesting and well explained. I've heard the notion "symmetry is beauty" regurgitated with conviction so many times, and every time I cringe because it appears to be too simple of a model for beauty. It is certainly a component, but not the only one. A testament to this is my high-school crush on a girls with a crooked smile.
bj0rn A lot of women like guys with prominent brows or a scar or tattoo on one side of their face. Asymmetry is also very beautiful and a sign of more character or creativity in all types of design.
bj0rn symmetry is just a tool that nature created and uses...beauty is a truly subjective. A affect with an objective cause:)
I think that balance is beauty. Symmetry is something that helps create a balance but there can also be a balance of positve and negative qualities that create beauty
I like to draw, every video of drawing of a face will try the best to demonstrate symmetric eyes and ears.
@@oswellsubscriptions2456 sooo true. So it's just all about the balance. I agree.
Great talk, lots of wisdom in this. I love what he says at the end about how we should treat people based on their behavior and not their looks. Bravo!
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍
Gosh! What an interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing!
If you want to save time, the speech is still easy to follow if you listen at 2x speed. If there was a 1.75 speed, that would likely be optimal.
There is
He talks very slowly, and that what annoys me.. I used to listen to fast-talking people and it became easy for me to comprehend what they say
As a 11th year student this is very helpful to me. I was told to choose or invent a topic for philosophy and I was very intrigued as to WHY beauty? Why would we have a better chance of survival because of this? What about ...
Thank you so much for this. I'll be back to say what grade I got thanks to your presentation. Really. Thanks a lot, this is very inspiring.
I got a 10 :') my teacher said it was a beautiful presentation, thanks for this.
Nice
Seriously? It's the same reason I'm here haha. 11th grade philosophy essay
@@Kilimser ohhh i could try to help u if u need more info
Good talk, I like how calm and focused he presented it.
6:15 Hehe, gotta love eccentric scientists.
I fell in love with my best friend then realized how handsome he really is.
I fell in love with a girl and realized how beautiful she is
Very comprehensive and thoughtful presentation. Thank you Anjan Chatterjee.
I like the idea that beauty is influencing our brains, and creating the associated physiological reactions, even when we are not consciously looking for or focusing upon it. Taking that notion and applying it to non-human aspects of beauty, it makes an intriguing case for filling the world with beautiful art, beautiful architectural design, beautiful landscapes, etc. to positively influence people.
WallaJen
Just the sight of ugliness and ugly people induces depression in the well suited.
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 thats why I paint . . .
@@bryanutility9609 🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 come over to GER and you will see. . .
Yes as humans we are pre-programmed to behave a certain way toward each other is part of our nature that we must overcome
Billy Crutchfield Pre-programmed by who? whom? Just remember all this scientific stuff keeps getting corrected all the time. They're constantly saying whoops we were wrong let me tell you what we know now.
Actually it isn't a program. That's not how the brain works. It's actually just neuro-chemical reactions that most humans experience. Namely oxytocin, which is strongly associated with warm interpersonal relationships. It also has the effect of making us more likely to have warmth and compassion for those who are like us. Meaning, in turn, creating an "us/them" mentality, which I believe is one reason why there is so much conflict in the world. But, explains in a biological way such behavior emerged in society.
Anon2150 Oh yeah, that chem. /hormone is powerful. That's the Power of Love ... that's what Huey Lewis and the News said ;) ... and that other song... Addicted to Love by... Robert Palmer. 🎵🎵
I don’t think “beautiful” people always get treated better. Sometimes they get treated worse than plain people, like a lot worse. Also your appearance doesn’t have much to do with your overall life or happiness
This is a beautiful video.
Great talk! Really interesting.
I so enjoyed this. Inspires me to learn more. Wished the description had links or book references.
Hey mate, did you find any books?
What an amazing talk.
Omg this is mind opening! Yes I love knowledge!!!!!
Loved this talk, I believe when we focus on growing our consciousness awareness as a people we'll start looking at the realness of others and the actual situation at hand instead of relying on subconscious walls/tests built by a personal methods of assumptions and interactions with others.
Basically learn more judge less.
If you just judge based on first instinct you’ll be right almost every time. Judging based on appearance is the best tool you have. Use it.
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 thats exactly why I started painting !!
Thank you for the good talk
Very interesting. I wonder how beauty will evolve in the future
We would probably see the beautiful people of the future as ugly, depending on how far into the future. In thousands of years we would probably see them as more beautiful, as they would look like the beautiful people of today but there would be a higher quantity of them. In a million years we would probably see them as alien or ape-like, the thought of mating with them may disgust us
Society, culture, inadvertently, tell us what beauty is. Here in the West, it is thin girls, in general, that are the attractive ones. In Africa, the beautiful ones are very fat.
Here in the Western part of the World, if you look at the old photos from the late 1800s early 1900s, it's clear to see our aesthetics have changed already. The social fabric and technology such as TV, social media magazines and anti-aging advances of our society has changed immensely since then. Therefore who we choose to reproduce with has become more about aesthetics rather than who is seen as a good rancher, farmer and provider or who will make a good homemaker with good childbearing hips (whatever that means). In my opinion, I feel in 200 years from now in the Western side of the world, if we are still able to advance, the majority of the population is going to evolve into a even more very petite, athletic, porcelain skinned faced woman and very tall masculine men. At the pace we are going, our great great grandkids will be looking at photos of us, commenting on how ugly and miserable we look.
Beauty is permanent designed by God your nose will always be best situated above your 2 lips
I still don't understand what happens in my brain that makes me find some facial scars WAY more attractive than "unmarked" faces.
I guess scars are sign of more expirenced man who survived in dangerous situation. Hence he will be more effective in protecting his offspring.
@@user-kv1hm2wo6y Yes, you are right.
What about nature. Animals, plants, stars formation. How we attracted to those things
the question of the ages, some people call that GOD
I used to find myself very ugly because of the comments i'd heard about my appearance. During the whole period of human history people have been choosing a beauty standard which is hard to achieve. For example chubbiness used to be the beauty standard till the food started to cost less in Russia. Serfs wanted to look like their landlords because landlords simply lived more , had more money and had a power other them. Nowadays you can also achieve the beauty standard by having plastic surgeries, eating healthy food, going to a gym and etc. but these actions costs a lot of money , so i think that beauty human is a lucky one, who is lucky for being alive when his or her appearance is high to achieve or it is a rich one or it is a one who has a power other someone. Right now i don't even think over my beauty because it's not my cup of tea. I want to be smart, i want to give this world something new.
Of course i can be wrong because i didn't mention personal aspect. And i don't think someone will actually read this so it's not that important.
I love this.....this is so wonderful.
Bro I read this ...and so inspired by u
amazing amazing talk 👏👏👏👏
I got many answers to my questions. I enjoyed
Would the colour example imply that preference for green be transmitted genetically?
What a nice TED Talk
Symmetry and shades of color in tldr, but it's actually an interesting question of what makes a person feel uncomfortable or don't have to correct it, usually that comes from a feeling that it's not exhibiting chaotic format and increasing our arousal, meaning if it's not structured as we understand to be a beautiful pattern our mind thinks it's ugly, like if you take away the mindful determinate thinking or sexual human arousal feelings, then all there's nothing really to beauty, that's why cheap beauty is not as attractive if you must think about it in a bigger picture.. but I feel the basis of beauty must be derived from a thoughtful existential feeling to be interesting. And sadly it's quite the crazy drug if you process beauty on a artificial level, making one hyperfocus to look one way at the beautiful not the other, in some way that behavior is not beautiful in the aspect of wholesomeness.
Thank you so much dearest master ❤
Beauty applies to more than just faces.
YEah... but the underlying principle is same. The subconscious factors that contribute to what a person regards as beautiful is more or less the same in case of faces and other things such as a place, or piece of art etc...
Michael Deering well he mentioned money as an indicator of beauty and fitness because of the ability to waste resources
face is 80% of beauty
Michael Deering You're right.
Blatantly !!
Does symmetrical faces/bodies are beautiful for all or the most life forms and universal(not only the earth)? i mean is there any possible for some life forms think asymmetrical faces/bodies are beautiful on some other planets?
"Beauty is a work in progress-" Well said.
Sadly the world is still deeply brutal.
Also, it is misleading to imply "people don't view beauty correctly" and then quote Darwin and Freud, both of whom rooted their scientific theory from the perspective that human psyche and human nature is flawed and ugly, with no hope of being otherwise. But how can this be? When we not only seek beauty in an ugly brutal world, we try to replicate it.
Thoughts?
I used to be beautiful but after puberty im still ravaged by acne, hyperimpegmentation and dark spots also my skin is quite dark and im also 23 fml
MrMentalz2 @ it should not matter how dark ur skin is. If ur acne scars annoy you and u live in Australia u can get free laser if u say to ur Dr it gives u depression and u need to c a dermatologist. That would help with the acne scarring and hypopigmentation too
MrMentalz2 hormones & food
A lot of water, lemon, sugar and honey face mask(2 days per week) and problem solved:D
Dude, you are not alone with the "I am 23 and still have acne". I feel your pain.
MrMentalz2 go vegan
Brilliant..
I really appreciate how he apologized to explain something universal with heterosexual norms. He shone a light and acknowledged(?) a whole community, which is so nice to hear. Great speech as well!
Thank you for this! I'm a straight male and I've been wondering why my initial reaction to a hot guy is almost like my first reaction to a hot female. I never follow up with sexual arousal with a man, but the first moment is the same.... Now I feel a little more "normal", lol.
@@emperorborgpalpatine Nope. Solidly hetero. Logical too.
@@216trixie Having sexual intentions with someone and thinking someone is beautifull are different. So bro we are not bisexual.
@@cantoprak7428 True!
@@cantoprak7428 and hi to me from 3 years ago.
@@216trixie it means you don’t have a fragile masculinity. which is very rare in straight males
bravo!!!!!!
If beauty is so advantageous then how come the majority of naturally beautiful people that I know make awful life choices?
Great video
So now I know for sure that I'm objectively ugly, not subjectively 🤣🤪
All jokes aside, that was an excellent presentation! 👏
Thank you
my brain uses user-based rating sites to decide whether something is good or bad
i have severe depression
Awesome video !!
So, if i understood correctly, beauty is a survival mechanism. The impulse of nature is towards perfection in beauty, as means of survival. Makes sense
First of all i was knowing all these informations before i watched the video. I want to know that how can i prevent from these effect on myself. Is there any techniques?
I always thought beauty was a combination of symmetry, familiarity, self-confidence and positive association in someones traits. Not to be confused with sexuality.
This explains everything.. 😅
thank you
💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 amazing talk
What about art and architecture
Then how does the brain judge what is beautiful painting or music or literature etc?
but then again, you only made tests on adults. So it is still possible that perception of beauty is learned. Babies for example do not discriminate, unless they see someone severely disfigured. But that's mainly because disfigurement is uncommon.
I don't know if this is taboo, but a suggestion I can give is have babies brains scanned while looking at pictures of both perceived average and aesthetically pleasant, by adults. If there is indeed a significant difference in their reaction parallel to what is perceived as beautiful by adults, only then can you truly say that beauty is part of evolution.
maattthhhh It is an innate trait for newborn babies to prefer symmetrical and attractive faces. This is not a learned behaviour, this can be observed mere hours after a baby is born. A quick google search of "do babies prefer attractive faces" will get you links with numerous scientific studies about the subject. Here's one to start: www.newscientist.com/article/dn6355-babies-prefer-to-gaze-upon-beautiful-faces/
Actually, there are several cases of babies/toddlers going being more open and wanting more contact with women seen as beautiful. (for example, babies were a subject discussed with family and friends sometimes and I learnt I and other people I know were in the same case!)
I'm no scientist and I haven't run any tests, but I can also agree that kids are more harsher on beauty then adults are. However, I can also say that while kids may be harsher on looks, they are more emotionally strong and pure-minded, which is why while they may care about looks, to them they wouldn't consider starving themselves to look 'pretty' like some teens would. then again, it depends on the child.
+Maattthhhh Incorrect. A test conducted on 6 and even 3 month old infants showed when looking at sets of two pictures they spent significantly longer looking at the symmetrical faces rather than the uglier less symmetrical faces. An affinity for symmetry is implicit, I can remember building symmetrical structures with my blocks in kindergarten.
i read somewhere that the only natural fear a baby has is the fear of heights, so it's more than likely their preferences are in fact learned.
شكرا جزيلا ع الترجمة العربية ولكنها غير مترابطة وذلك لان بعض المصطلحات تحتاج الى مختص وليس مترجم والصراحة هذا اول فيديو اشاهده بهذه القناة
this dude's voice is making me fall asleep for
I didn't understand his argument for why its not necessary that teens decision for mating is not sub-consciously based on health.
The long example given by him in support of his argument, in which he shows Green, Orange and Red color preferences, doesn't make any sense.
Because, eventually it does correlate with health somehow. If Green preference is associated with high reproductive success, then it probably does also associate with 'Health' as an unhealthy individual has a poor chance of reproductive success.
Any comments?
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There are very few videos where are I don't read comments while watching the video, it was one of them.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - in short.
Beauty is mirage
But i thought it was my heart that decided whats beautiful
Damn it! There goes my belief of finding love in a rural village...
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 I ve been giving it up too . . . just love yourself - thats pretty enough . . .
Before watching this video, i was always disturbed by my bad face. However, i feel much more relaxed now.
I got a demeaning man shaming diamond ad for this video. Triggered!
I really liked the first part of the talk, when he spoke about averaging, simmetry and hormones. But after that, the speech became weaker: it doesn't feel like the idea of what is beautiful is changing these days, and all the references to research and experiments didn't support much and were a little confusing, in my opinion.
wow
12:22 that hurt cause I have experienced it😞
Thats soo deep
path dunk
a lot he said makes sense, until the end when he says what we find beautiful is changing. does he really think hundreds of thousands of years of sexual selection preference is just gonna go away because we don't have parasites?
The impressions and advantages are usually limited to the initial duration of interaction. Most often beautiful people also have to prove wrong the notion of beauty without brains and put in extra efforts to prove their worth.
Тема не раскрыта. Очень много затронуто других тем вместо зявленной.
Плюс противоречие - он говорит, что красоту мы воспринимает автоматически, а потом - мы должны построить общество, свободное от стереотипов. Да как, если восприятие идет автоматически?
The same way we cherry pick good looking fruits and vegetables from supermarket
Lo importante es encajar contigo mismo, y lo que opinen de ti fisicamente o psicologicamente tampoco deberia importa, desde que respetes al otro y no ofendas a nadie. Lo unico cierto es que al final de la vida todos iremos para el mismo hueco y hay no importara tu fisico. Solo lo que dejaste bueno para los demas, tu esencia, como serviste a otros lo que pueda ofrecer tu bellesa interior.:)
@1:26 that's Michael Fassbender...
Did he make a conclusion?
Medieval philosophy : beauty good and true are undissociable!
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 thats what GOETHE told us . . .
I remember one famous quote from Jim Carrey in Liar Liar:
your teacher taught that beauty always comes from inside but actually only ugly people say it
thanks for confirming that i'm ugly 😅
omg finally a scientists who isn't partisan who doesn't bends research results for the sake of politics. Much Respect to Anjan.
I'm sure this guy knows his stuff but damn, his delivery could really use some work.
Jacob Clarkson that is so true.
Actually I found it quite easy to masturbate to.
@@PsychorGames
I watchs this to learn english 😊👻
x3
me too
sun sulaf Same!
*watch
Don't make it plural in that sentence because you are talking about just one thing/person
:)
Same
Erik. You spelled beauty incorrectly.
Averageness, symmetry and hormone effects
...what about fetishes?
Nathan Gatten XD
I have a feet fetish; I googled, and found that it has to do with a woman's genitals.
11:07
Ancient Hedonists: We told you breh.
i approve
Averaging implies symmetry
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Yes! everyone becomes attractive after one month lol
pirulo pirulito If beauty wasn't in the eyes of the beholder most people would be single and a virgin. But that is not the case different people end up in relationships all the time. I've seen people get called hot who I think are ugly.
Cope
@@gb917 Cope