Esthetics - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Partner preferences across the life span: online dating by older adults.

30 May 2009 Stereotypes of older adults as withdrawn or asexual fail to recognize that romantic relationships in later life are increasingly common. The authors analyzed 600 Internet personal ads from 4 age groups: 20-34, 40-54, 60-74, and 75+ years. ... Read more...

The influence of appearance, health, and future orientations on tanning behavior.

29 Apr 2009 OBJECTIVE: To compare the influence of appearance, health, and future orientations on tanning attitudes and behaviors. METHODS: The study was an online survey of 406 volunteers from a university community. RESULTS: Appearance and future orientations ... Read more...

An evolutionary perspective on humor: sexual selection or interest indication?

28 Apr 2009 Are people who are funny more attractive? Or does being attractive lead people to be seen as funnier? The answer may depend on the underlying evolutionary function of humor. While humor has been proposed to signal "good genes," the authors propose ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Esthetics - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Partner preferences across the life span: online dating by older adults. 30 May 2009
• The influence of appearance, health, and future orientations on tanning behavior. 29 Apr 2009
• An evolutionary perspective on humor: sexual selection or interest indication? 28 Apr 2009
• Averageness or symmetry: which is more important for facial attractiveness? 23 Apr 2009
• Patient attitudes and expectations regarding natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery. Apr 2009
• Screening for dysfunction to promote multidisciplinary intervention by using the University of Washington Quality of Life Questionnaire. 30 Mar 2009
• Plastic surgery, aesthetics, and medical professionalism: beauty and the eye of the beholder. 30 Mar 2009
• Art and self: a new psychoanalytic perspective on creativity and aesthetic experience. 30 Mar 2009
• A dance to the music of time: aesthetically-relevant changes in body posture in performing art. 24 Mar 2009
• See Josephus: viewing first-century sexual drama with Victorian eyes. 30 Dec 2008
• "To wipe a manly tear": the aesthetics of emotion in Victorian narrative painting. 30 Dec 2008
• "Smite this sleeping world awake": Edward Burne-Jones and "The legend of the briar rose". 30 Dec 2008
• Images, femininity and cancer: an analysis of an international patient education programme. 30 Dec 2008
• Effects of acute nicotine administration on ratings of attractiveness of facial cues. 30 Dec 2008
• The rainbow as interactive art: modeling the Elaisson Beauty installation at SFMOMA. 29 Nov 2008
• Who art thou? Personality predictors of artistic preferences in a large UK sample: the importance of openness. 20 Nov 2008
• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Registry for Congenital Melanocytic Naevi: prospective study 1988-2007. Part 2--Evaluation of treatments. 20 Oct 2008
• Aging, body image, and body shape. 29 Sep 2008
• Cosmesis in thyroid and parathyroid surgery: a matter of perspective. 29 Sep 2008
• Can persons with schizophrenia appreciate visual art? 14 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Esthetics'

Definition: The branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful. It includes beauty, esthetic experience, esthetic judgment, esthetic aspects of medicine, etc.

Descriptor UI: D004954

Alternative terms: Esthetics; Aesthetics;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; psychology;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.477; K01.752.210;

Online Note: use ESTHETICS to search BEAUTY 1966

History Note: 67; was BEAUTY 1963-66