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美之為物

內容簡介

內容簡介 A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior. In Survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism—it’s in our biology. Beauty, she explains, is an essential and ineradicable part of human nature that is revered and ferociously pursued in nearly every civilization—and for good reason. Those features to which we are most attracted are often signals of fertility and fecundity. When seen in the context of a Darwinian struggle for survival, our sometimes extreme attempts to attain beauty—both to become beautiful ourselves and to acquire an attractive partner—suddenly become much more understandable. Moreover, if we understand how the desire for beauty is innate, then we can begin to work in our own interests, and not just the interests of our genetic tendencies.

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各界推薦 愛美出於天性，還是來自文化建構？ 心理學家Etcoff認為美是人類共通的經驗，因為美帶來快樂、具吸引力、並確保基因傳承。 她從人類學、心理學、生物學以及考古角度，研究發現不同的地域與文化，對美的認同卻極為相似；人類塗口紅的行徑可追溯至西元前五千年；她強調，即便我們難以承認自己依舊受制於基因，但從過去了解自我還是必要的。

作者介紹

作者介紹 Nancy Etcoff has an M.Ed. from Harvard, a Ph.D. in psychology from Boston University, and has held a post-doctoral fellowship in brain and cognitive sciences at MIT. She is currently a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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