UTS - The Physical Self

zoe kravitz

"Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful."

digitally retouched photos

CAN NEGATIVELY INFLUENCE A PERSON'S BODY IMAGE

self-image problem

happens when your looks do not match your beauty standards.

ideal standards

STANDARD OF BODY SIZES ARE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC

importance of physical beauty

DO NOT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER extremely

beauty

ULTIMATES VALUES ALONG THE GOODNESS, TRUTH AND JUSTICE. PRIMARY THEME OF ANCIENT GREEK, HELLENISTIC, AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHERS CENTRAL OF 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY THOUGHT DECLINED BY 20TH CENTURY SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE dictionary: degree to which a person's physical traits are considered pleasing or beautiful.

philippines

UNDOUBTedLY INFLUENCED BY WESTERN CULTURE, A CULTURE THAT GENERALLY TEND TO HYPER FOCUS ON DIETING AND BODY APPEARANCE

subconscious mind

WILL CONTRADICT YOU, AND YOU WILL STILL FIND YOURSELF JUDGING PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR LOOK

self-esteem

coined by William James number of successes a person achieves in the domain of life that is important to him/her divided by the number of failures that occurred. ▪1960's, BEHAVIORAL SCIENTISTS DEFINED IN TERMS OF ATTITUDE CONCERNING ONE'S WORTH HOW YOU VALUE YOURSELF AND HOW YOU FEEL OTHER'S VALUE THEM

plato

connected beauty as a response to love and desire. He asserted that beauty exists in the realm of Forms, and that objects are found beautiful because they are a reflection of the idea of beauty that already exist in the realm of forms.

evolutionary psychology

found that faces hold certain fundamental and important characteristics that could indicate a person's quality as a romantic partner and as a mate.

francis hutcheson

the perception of beauty does depend on the external sense of sight; however, internal sense of beauty, operates as an internal or reflex sense.

cultural traditions

can either have a positive or a negative influence on body image and on self-esteem.

cognitive bias

-Error in reasoning, evaluating, remembering or any other mental process that is often a result of holding on to one's preference and belief

immanuel kant

-the judgement of taste is therefore not a judgement of cognition and is consequently not logical but aesthetical, by which we understand that whose determining ground can be no other than subjective. during 18th century

aristotle

ASSERTED THAT THE CHIEF OF FORMS OF BEAUTY ARE 1.ORDER 2.SYMMETRY 3. DEFINITENESS THAT CAN BE DEMONSTRATED BY MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE

body image

HOW YOU VIEW YOUR PHYSICAL BODY, WHETHER YOU FEEL YOU ARE ATTRACTIVE AND HOW YOU FEEL SOME OTHER PEOPLE LIKE YOUR LOOKS ACCEPT YOURSELF THE WAY YOU ARE, EVEN IF YOU FIT THE POPULAR NOTION OF "BEAUTIFUL" OR "HANDSOME". THIS HEALTHY ATTITUDE WILL ALLOW YOU TO EXPLORE SOME OTHER ASPECTS OF GROWING UP

american women

IDEAL BOdY SIZES HAVE EMPHASIZED THINNEss

culture group membership

INTEGRAL PART OF WHO THEY ARE. HENCE, THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO ENGAGE IN AN EVENT THAT ARE related TO THEIR CULTURE

positive view of self

INVOLVES UNDERSTANDING THAT HEALTHY, ATTRACTIVE BODIES COME IN MANY SHAPES AND SIZES. PHYSICAL APPEARANCE SAYS VERY LITTLE ABOUT OUR CHARACTER

culture

IS EXPERIENCED, IT IS DIFFICULT TO FOR A PERSON TO RESIST THAT CULTURE INFLUENCES A PERSON'S LIFE

18th century

MOST WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS ON BEAUTY TREATED IT AS AN OBJECTIVE QUALITY

halo effect

also known as physical attractiveness stereotype and the "what is beautiful is good" principle cognitive bias refers to the tendency of people to rate attractive individuals more as compared to those less attractive. Research found that a person who is perceived as attractive makes more money than a person of below-average looks.

st. augustine

asked whether things were beautiful because it gave delight, or whether it gave delight because it was beautiful.

male raters

attractive opposite is prominent cheekbone, large eyes, small nose, a taller forehead, smooth skin and are overall young or even childlike appearance.

female raters

attractive opposite is relatively prominent cheekbone and eyebrow ridges and relatively long lower face.

david hume

beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them, and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce on his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those forms during 18th century

hormones

sculpt our faces. ▪These facial features of men and women are the result of testosterone and estrogen ratio