Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #273: Symmetry

People are wired by Nature to seek symmetry.  People with regular features are seen as more attractive than those with variations between the two halves of their face or body.  We like things in our environment to be symmetrical too, and we notice things that have a pleasing symmetry about them.  and then, there are …

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Lens-Artists Challenge #116: Symmetry. It’s hard-wired.

In my graduate studies in Psychology, one unit we studied was "interpersonal attractiveness". The professors at my university had done numerous studies of what makes a person attractive.  They asked thousands of study subjects to rate photographs of various people, male and female, young and old.  There are many dimensions to attractiveness, and different people …

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