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Is it? Isn't there research showcasing that beautiful things make people feel better? https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/news-and-events/news/why-we-lo

Is it? Isn't there research showcasing that beautiful things make people feel better? https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/news-and-events/news/why-we-look-at-pretty-faces.html https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/news-and-events/n... Although, there are more concrete results about surrounding environment than people specifically. Anything more I can read about this?

amelius 6y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-retouched-photos-impact-our-mental-health-2018-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/how-retouched-photos-impact-...
- searchableguy 6y ago
  It doesn't have any studies listed. I am more curious about any wide scale studies. I have seen some stuff on impact of social media standards and how it affects people but is there anything separate? A study that removes social media and then test out filter applied pictures? Original post: https://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/1138660/retouched-photos-mental-health/ https://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/113866...
aaron695 6y ago
That's a really good point. Both are true. Beauty in the world really matters. Both people and things. But expectations being set to high on oneself is bad. Can you have one without the other and how much are each weighted. You can also throw in beauty is a service industry that creates jobs and personal satisfaction. Which every UBI talk says is what we will be doing when we can't work.
- searchableguy 6y ago
  Right, but we should be able to calculate the impact of various factors. Industries could be using wrong types of filters or social media magnifies the filters in wrong ways. For example, instagram algorithms specifically pick certain kind of body features and people to throw in your feed. https://voxeurop.eu/en/the-skin-bias-in-instagram/ https://voxeurop.eu/en/the-skin-bias-in-instagram/ Algorithms could also be causing a significant cognitive dissonance by making people feel excluded. If I don't see enough people that shares some resemblance to locals (however beautiful or filtered they are), there is some stress.
klyrs 6y ago
I guess the real question isn't if beauty makes people feel better. Fentanyl makes people feel great. I think that the better question is, what are the long term effects of unrealistic portrayal of human beauty?
3131s 6y ago
Why do people find these retouched images attractive? I'm a good looking guy (in shape, did modelling, etc.) and I just can't understand it. It's like makeup to me... wrinkles, freckles, scars, and everything else have never affected my perception of beauty because I tend to like an exotic, atypical appearance. Health and physical fitness have a much larger impact on attractiveness for me and all this stuff just seems like a poor imitation of what it actually is to look healthy.

amelius 6y ago

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-retouched-photos-impact-our-mental-health-2018-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/how-retouched-photos-impact-...

searchableguy 6y ago
It doesn't have any studies listed. I am more curious about any wide scale studies. I have seen some stuff on impact of social media standards and how it affects people but is there anything separate? A study that removes social media and then test out filter applied pictures? Original post: https://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/1138660/retouched-photos-mental-health/ https://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/113866...

aaron695 6y ago

That's a really good point. Both are true. Beauty in the world really matters. Both people and things. But expectations being set to high on oneself is bad. Can you have one without the other and how much are each weighted. You can also throw in beauty is a service industry that creates jobs and personal satisfaction. Which every UBI talk says is what we will be doing when we can't work.

searchableguy 6y ago
Right, but we should be able to calculate the impact of various factors. Industries could be using wrong types of filters or social media magnifies the filters in wrong ways. For example, instagram algorithms specifically pick certain kind of body features and people to throw in your feed. https://voxeurop.eu/en/the-skin-bias-in-instagram/ https://voxeurop.eu/en/the-skin-bias-in-instagram/ Algorithms could also be causing a significant cognitive dissonance by making people feel excluded. If I don't see enough people that shares some resemblance to locals (however beautiful or filtered they are), there is some stress.

klyrs 6y ago

I guess the real question isn't if beauty makes people feel better. Fentanyl makes people feel great. I think that the better question is, what are the long term effects of unrealistic portrayal of human beauty?

3131s 6y ago

Why do people find these retouched images attractive? I'm a good looking guy (in shape, did modelling, etc.) and I just can't understand it. It's like makeup to me... wrinkles, freckles, scars, and everything else have never affected my perception of beauty because I tend to like an exotic, atypical appearance. Health and physical fitness have a much larger impact on attractiveness for me and all this stuff just seems like a poor imitation of what it actually is to look healthy.