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140. Brandon Vaidyanathan | Beauty in Science

Language of God

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The Relationship Between Beauty and Moral Evil

Cross-cultural agreement is there on standards of beauty? Are we hardwired to see certain things as beautiful or is it all cultural when we get down to that level? The neuroscientific work, this is the work done by Anjan Chatterjee and colleagues at UPenn suggests that there are some cultural universals. There tends to be more of a preference towards symmetry and faces.

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