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1/28/2004 slide 33

Perception Theory Meets Culture Theory in The Science of Beauty

•How do higher-level issues fit into ecological theories of vision? Science of beauty interesting example: combines issues of

–Power of images

–Power of media

–Gender roles

–Psychology

–Evolutionary theory/ecology

–Gestalt: symmetry, grouping (beauty as symmetry study)

•Ectoff describes research showing perception of female beauty may be in part hard-wired

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