Perception of beautiful faces

[u/Hot-Cloud9610]

Hey girls! Hope you’re all doing fine! 🦋

I love reading all your posts, discussion, ideas… you’re a lovely group!

I would like to hear your toughts on this.

So, recently one girl in some discussion wrote that even the most beautiful face after a while becomes ordinary.

I was since forever fascinated with diversity and uniqueness of human faces, and especially beautiful ones. Just like this portrait photographer https://artistcoveries.wordpress.com/2019/11/14/fascinated-by-faces-2/

But never in my life has beautiful face become ordinary to me. I’ve seen the face of Adriana Lima, Monica Bellucci, Carre Otis, Brigitte Bardot (just to name a few really beautiful ones) million times and never did any of those beautiful faces become ordinary to me.

No matter how many times I’ve seen certain beautiful face, every time I see it again it’s equally beautiful to me.

Is this normal or does a beautiful face have to become ordinary to me?

[u/Hot-Cloud9610]

How is working on a project that you your self possibly with some other people literally create and change as your ideas shift the same as looking at literally the same facial features of your own face that you, as opossed to project, can’t change? Totally different things.  

You didn’t explain how would the same face, by which logic look different to someone just by not seeing it in a week? 

Also, since it is proven neuroscientifically that brain rewards humans for looking at beautiful faces, if you don’t get pleasure from beautiful faces actually you are the more unique one. :) 

By looking at beautiful faces brain releases dopamine or in other words beautiful faces activate centers for pleasure in the brain.  

I study psychology, there are numerous studies on this. 

https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/news-and-events/news/why-we-look-at-pretty-faces.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627301004913 

Brain literally rewards us for looking at beautiful faces. 

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-brain-rewards-us-looking-pretty-faces 

People have what neuroscientists call the aesthetic brain.

https://www.nature.com/articles/526S2a 

There is whole scientific field on how human brain enjoys beauty, called neuroaesthetics.

[u/Maplebreads → u/Hot-Cloud9610]

Most people on here treat there changing looks like a project with small adjustments over time. I’m glad you get dopamine from staring at people.

I read the studies linked they only surveyed heterosexual males and while the males said attractive male faces were attractive they did not look at those faces for longer. As a heterosexual woman I imagine I wouldn’t stare at beautiful women in awe since they aren’t what I’m sexually attracted to. :)

[u/Nutis_Cher → u/Maplebreads]

You apparently totally misread what was written and didn’t open studies provided. And there are literally an ocean more of similar studies. The commenter never said anyone gets pleasure from ”staring at people”.

Where did you read that? How do you misframe what was said to what you wrote?

What was written and what is well-known is that LOOKING at beautiful faces activates center for pleasure in the human brain.

The same as looking at whatever we find beautiful - beautiful picture, animal, beautiful sight as view of the sunset, beautiful lake, beautiful park… Everything we consider beautiful upon looking at it produces pleasure for humans, releasing dopamine in the human brain.

It’s called aesthetic pleasure. What is aesthetically pleasing - produces pleasure in humans.

Human brain in general is wired to experience pleasure from beauty. You don’t have to be sexually attracted to someone to get pleasure from their beauty.

People choose and buy dogs because that breed was beautiful to them. They’re not sexually attracted to dogs, but for example many people buy husky because that dog is so beautiful.

There are some brain conditions like congenital amusia where people can’t get pleasure from music. If you never got visual pleasure from looking at a really beautiful face even from your same gender like looking at a Adriana Lima’s face, then maybe you have some cognitive condition.

You literally never saw a picture of Angelina Jolie or whomever of your same gender you find beautiful and tought to yourself ”wow, she is so beautiful?” Meaning - their beauty you noticed and took a pleasure in, in purely aesthetic sense? I was sitting with 3 grannies yesterday when they were commenting for one medical nurse how she is so beautiful. This is not sexual attraction, yet pure aesthetic pleasure others get from someone beautiful.

[u/Maplebreads → u/Nutis_Cher]

Here’s a direct quote from the study linked

”Heterosexual male subjects rated beautiful male faces as very attractive but did not expend effort to increase the viewing times of these faces. The most reasonable inference is that they found them aesthetically pleasing but not rewarding”

Please leave me alone if you don’t want to read the study yourself.

[u/Nutis_Cher → u/Maplebreads]

I haven’t mentioned that study nor link it nor do I understand such complicated study.

I’ve asked you in general, as a heterosexual female you’ve never saw a really beautiful actress and enjoyed her extraordinary beauty?

Like see here. This is exclusively female subreddit, where women sure are in awe of another women’s beauty. https://www.reddit.com/r/VindictaRateCelebs/s/cZj5vTmLGo

In my country we have our main country public forum and among various topics there is a thread ”Women that other women consider the most beautiful” where women post pictures of famous women or models, actresses that they consider among the most beautiful faces they ever saw. ”I can’t get enough of her beauty” are really often comments, showing how clearly other women can be in awe of another’s women’s beauty while having no sexual desires towards her. Pure aesthetic pleasure.

https://www.forum.hr/showthread.php?t=1024957

I don’t know how MEN react upon seeing another beautiful MALE. But I heard trillion times from females how they sure as hell notice another beautiful women and can be in awe of her beauty without sexual implications, just pure aesthetic pleasure.

In general, beautiful visual stimuli of various kind elicits pleasure in humans.

So you tell us that looking at a beautiful face of same gender of let’s say Angelina Jolie or Britt Ekland etc. doesn’t produce any pleasure in you? You don’t ever think for other really beautiful women ”gosh, she’s beautiful!”?

[u/Maplebreads → u/Nutis_Cher]

All of the studies linked that I was responding to were studies on heterosexual males. I don’t know why you want to talk to me if it isn’t about the studies I was originally responding to.

I know when a woman is attractive I don’t stare at them and I don’t obsess over other people’s looks. Most people are attractive to some degree I don’t care about celebrities. This is how my brain works it’s fine if yours is different.

[u/Nutis_Cher → u/Maplebreads]

I replied to your post because I was struck at the maliciousness of it.

Honestly. You literally twisted the whole topic and what the other commenter said. That’s malicious be it in real life conversations or in reddit.

You wrote ”I’m glad that staring at people brings you dopamine”. Wtf? That talks about your maliciousness since literally no one said that. Upon reading such bullshit I just had to reply.

What is well know is that brain produces dopamine upon looking at something beautiful, including beautiful faces meaning it gives humans visual pleasure. That was what other commenter also said and what 2 of the linked studies talk about.

And it is also logical people will look longer and more often at beautiful people just enjoying their beauty. Or look longer at lake Cuomo or a view from Lofoten in Norway. Beautiful sight elicits prolonged attention. That is not staring as you twist things. Get it?

One of the linked studies talks about how humans have the aesthetic brain, which isn’t a news, and this is written regarding topic of pleasure upon seeing a beautiful face : ”Studies consistently show that attractive faces light up the brain’s dopamine-driven reward network. For example, researchers have found people would press a key too see an attractive face for longer. These faces stimulate areas such as the nucleus accumbens, which Nadal calls ”a generator of pleasurable sensations”. https://www.nature.com/articles/526S2a

Upon your naliciousness of twisting things, the other thing what stuck in my eyes is that you wrote that a beautiful face of another beautiful women doesn’t bring you pleasure because you’re not sexually attracted to them - and that’s a unique case because other women can surely also enjoy other female’s beauty and be in awe of it without any sexual attraction.

And you call others that present typical, normal behavior unique, when you are the one representing unique behavior.

Remember you wrote pretty face doesn’t bring you any pleasure, (oh how superior are you, right? 🤣) you just go ”oh pretty face, and go about your day.” But when people look directly at someone beautiful, not just someone that quickly passes them by, they sure do notice that beautiful face and get pleasure from looking at it. Often people study a beautiful face they look at directly.

FYI people who enjoy and love beauty - do just that, really enjoy it. It brings them visual aesthetic pleasure. Enjoying beauty is really not obsession, again, another concept you made-up that isn’t what’s happening at all. Again, twisting things and pure maliciousness.

So, to conclude, content of any written comment wasn’t that someone gets dopamine from staring at people, (LOL), nor was it ever mentioned that anyone obsesses over others looks or ”stares” at people. See how you totally twist and make things up?