Love is a subjective term that describes the type of attractiveness usually associated with nice facial features [1] .
According to the theory of the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz , the prettiness of human children and cubs of animals plays an important role in ensuring the survival of the species, because it causes a desire to take care of the offspring. Conrad developed the concept of childishness in facial features and body shape ( German Kindchenschema , Kindhenshaem), highlighting a set of features that make a creature cute and thus emotionally motivate adults to have a gentle and maternal attitude and courtship [2] [3] [4] .
Both living and nonliving objects may seem cute, touching.
The concept of prettiness can also cover the characteristics of behavior and emotional state. As they wrote in the book “Good Tone” at the end of the 19th century (St. Petersburg, German Goppe Edition, 1881), “[and] true prettyness cannot be learned or taught, it is a work of real, pure, childish natures, transfigured, perfected by upbringing, expressions of a beautiful soul ” [5] .
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Childish appearance and good-looking
According to Doug Jones, a visiting scientist in anthropology at Cornell University , face proportions change with age due to age-related changes in hard and soft tissue. Young animals differ from adults in proportion to a smaller nose, a higher forehead and larger eyes. If we talk about hard tissues, the cubs of the skull grow strongly in cubs, while the bones of the nose and parts of the skull associated with chewing function, reached the maximum growth rate later. Speaking of soft tissues, Jones explains that the cartilaginous tissues of the ears and nose continue to grow throughout a person’s life, the eyebrows go down to the infraorbital region and lower (from a position above the infraorbital region) somewhere from the age of twenty-five years, also with the sides eyebrows sag, which makes the eyes appear smaller, and the red part of the lips s becomes thinner due to loss of connective tissue [6] .
A study by Chiarella Sforza et al. Revealed that the faces of attractive white children from the north of Italy have such “baby-specific features” as a “large forehead”, smaller jaws, “proportionally larger and forward lower jaw”, wider face, flatter face and larger “ anteroposterior ” face sizes than white children from northern Italy, accepted as standard in this study [7] .
The biological function of prettiness
Conrad Lorenz in 1949 argued that infantile traits trigger maternal instinct in adults and that this was an evolutionary adaptation that helped ensure that parents take care of their children, ultimately guaranteeing the survival of the species. Several later scientific studies provided additional evidence in favor of the Lorentz theory. For example, it has been shown that adults respond positively to children who respond to stereotypes of prettiness. Studies have also shown that the reaction to the attractiveness and attractiveness of the face seems to be the same both within the same culture and in different cultures [8] . And Stefan Hamann from Emory University revealed using functional magnetic resonance imaging that cute pictures caused an increase in activity in the orbitofrontal (orbital-frontal) cortex [9] .
See also
- Kawaii
Notes
- ↑ "Pretty." Explanatory Dictionary Ozhegova.
"Pretty". Explanatory dictionary Ushakov.
"Pretty". Encyclopedic Dictionary. 2009. - ↑ Lorenz, Konrad. Studies in Animal and Human Behavior . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press ; 1971
- ↑ Glocker ML, Langleben DD, Ruparel K, Loughead JW, Valdez JN, Griffin MD, Sachser N, Gur RC. "Baby schema modulates the brain reward system in nulliparous women." Proc Natl Acad Sci US A. 2009 Jun 2; 106 (22): 9115–9119.
- ↑ Emotional development of children and adolescents . - OLMA Media Group, 2004. - P. 40–. - ISBN 978-5-93878-124-5 .
The emotional development of children and adolescents . - OLMA Media Group, 2004. - P. 242–. - ISBN 978-5-93878-124-5 . - ↑ Collective of authors. Good tone . - Ripol Classic, January 2013. - P. 29–. - ISBN 978-5-458-69129-1 .
- ↑ Jones, D. et al. (1995). Sexual selection, physical attractiveness, and facial neoteny: Cross-cultural evidence and implications [and commments and reply] In Current Anthropology. 36 (5). pp. 723-748.
- ↑ Preedy, VR (2012). Handbook of anthropometry: Physical measures of human form in health and disease. New York: Springer Science. ISBN 978-1-4419-1787-4
- ↑ Van Duuren, Mike; Kendell-Scott, Linda; Stark, Natalie. "Early Aesthetic Choices: Infant Preferences for Attractive Premature Infant Faces" (PDF), King Alfred's College. Archived from the original .
- ↑ Schneider, Avie . Agreed, Baby Pandas Are Cute. But why? (10 January 2013). Date of treatment January 13, 2013.
Links
- New Portion: Theory of Good Looking - Elena Egereva - Snob
- Lovely traits - a well-thought-out strategy of evolution - Bulletin (popular science magazine)
- You have such a touching “baby” face - Flipnos. The Art of Instant Persuasion - Kevin Dutton - RuTLib.com
- Quick reading: why do we call each other babies and toddlers? - Maria Ivanova - Theories and Practices of Moscow