How your brain decides what is beautiful | Anjan Chatterjee

Anjan Chatterjee uses tools from evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study one of nature's most captivating concepts: beauty. Learn more about the science behind why certain configurations of line, color and form excite us in this fascinating, deep look inside your brain.

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[RawPeds]

"Why don't you get a girlfriend?"
"It all started in Pleistocene..."

[kulik]

Everyone's brain concludes that I'm ugly.

[vinita]

factors considered to be beautiful-
1.mixed race
2.symmetry
3.hormones-facial features
4.health-reproductive

[manivignesh.k]

the red, green, orange preference example was awesome

[damaris]

My biology teacher explained this to the class :)) best teacher ever, also a she is big fan of carl sagan

[FrauMey]

So if you're ugly, you're not only ugly, you'll also treated bad and everybody will think you're bad... :(

[PiyushKumar-iepg]

This man cleared my biggest question of life

[francisgallant]

Symmetry is something like comfort not the thing that excites our senses but rather a point of reference.

The more sensitive to beauty you are the more you enjoy asymmetry.
Like people who enjoy complex music trained their ears to appreciate more & more dissonant chords.

Today's mainstream media produce more comfort than beauty be it in music or in beauty magazine. Since science as got into the matter of beauty it has been industrialized and vulgarized.

This is just my observation that I base on both scientific studies and personal philosophy.

[blackmedallione]

The way he talks is so relaxing. I'm going to replay this thing to sleep. ❤

[blackhawkX]

This video should be called "How your brain decides what is ATTRACTIVE"

When I read the word "Beautiful", art, nature, the night sky, combinations of colors, sensations, sounds, architecture, etc. came to my mind. Kind of disappointed when I watched a video based just on attractiveness.

[obsideonyx]

Beauty is the intuition for the pattern of perfect being/existence

[dtr_cpg]

I don't know why but I find guys with facial asymmetry more attractive and interesting to look at, so they are beautiful for me. It seems that they have more character and mystery.

[arcanewonders]

7:55 this is such an important concept in evolutionary psychology that is constantly overlooked. The distinction between the proximate cause and the ultimate cause. To often people confuse the inherent arbitrary liking of something to some cognitive extrinsic desire for survival.

[TheLivirus]

Really interesting and well explained. I've heard the notion "symmetry is beauty" regurgitated with conviction so many times, and every time I cringe because it appears to be too simple of a model for beauty. It is certainly a component, but not the only one. A testament to this is my high-school crush on a girls with a crooked smile.

[l_zonnacraft]

As a 11th year student this is very helpful to me. I was told to choose or invent a topic for philosophy and I was very intrigued as to WHY beauty? Why would we have a better chance of survival because of this? What about ...

Thank you so much for this. I'll be back to say what grade I got thanks to your presentation. Really. Thanks a lot, this is very inspiring.

[martingoode]

Attraction is only a part of recognition of beauty.
Why do we water flowers and not weeds?. Nature displays beauty and harsh and in amazing ways. And humans which are the construct of everything mother nature has worked to achieve. Has all the characteristics of beauty and harsh characteristics of beauty that mother nature has.

[curious]

Great Talks and lots of clarity on how Beauty plays a key role in our life.

BTW as a Bengali, I'm very proud of Anjan Chatterjee.

[michelleh]

I fell in love with my best friend then realized how handsome he really is.

[wolfferoni]

Very interesting. I wonder how beauty will evolve in the future

[WallaJen]

I like the idea that beauty is influencing our brains, and creating the associated physiological reactions, even when we are not consciously looking for or focusing upon it. Taking that notion and applying it to non-human aspects of beauty, it makes an intriguing case for filling the world with beautiful art, beautiful architectural design, beautiful landscapes, etc. to positively influence people.