PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kit Kat, Pareidolia, Selective Breeding
14 Sep 2016
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The brain assumes that like objects are groups. Amygdala assesses the emotional significance of a stimulus. Neurons in the ffg respond to faces. Seeing faces in things that really aren"t faces at all. Even emotions can be extracted from these faces . Affected artificial selection of heikegani crabs (fishermen would put them back in the water because they looked scary) Big events are expected to have big causal explanations. Brain codes and interprets energy from the world. Babies have an innate preference for faces. People think attractive people are better at pretty much everything. Facial hue hypothesis differences in colour suggest differences in health and fertility. People tend to think averages of faces are more attractive than actual, more. Extreme faces because it"s closer to your internal average. But one study had three groups of faces with varying degrees of averageness, and the least average face was thought of as the most attractive.
