Just My Imagination: Beauty premium and the evolved mental model.
Imagination, an important feature of the human mind, may be at the root of the beauty premium. The evolved human capacity for simulating the real world, developed as an adaptation to a complex social environment, may offer the key to understanding this and many other aspects of human behavior.
Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology,Gokiso-cho,Showa-ku,Nagoya 466-8555,Japan.oda.ryo@nitech.ac.jphttps://sites.google.com/site/ethologyodakeneng/.
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D001504:Beauty; D015982:Bias; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011593:Psychology, Social