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A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better
Julia Baum and Rasha Abdel Rahman
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2025, nsae071, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsae071
Published: 17 October 2024
... cited. Abstract Moral beauty, reflected in one’s actions, and facial beauty both affect how we are judged. Here, we investigated how moral and facial beauty interact to affect social judgments and emotional responses, employing event-related brain potentials (ERPs). All participants (female) associated...
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Music as incarnated beauty in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion: a neoplatonic reading
Daniel Fishley
Literature and Theology, Volume 38, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 13–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frae007
Published: 16 August 2024
... and the concomitant claims concerning reason that organizes Plotinus’ anthropology and, indeed, his metaphysical notion of beauty. In book V.3.8 Plotinus notes that the beauty perceived by the subject is not a beauty innate to the subject themselves, for “the soul does not see what it possesses; for it did not even...
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The Semantics of Beauty in Spanish Adjectives: Conceptual Structure and Implications for Folk Aesthetics
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Ernesto Wong García
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 60, Issue 2, April 2024, Pages 253–281, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae047
Published: 27 June 2024
..., aesthetic concepts like beautiful and ugly ‘are dynamic concepts and can easily exchange their aesthetic value’. 18 (I would say valence.) In fact, I show that some of the adjectives analysed, while ascribing a positive aesthetic value, have or acquire a negative connotation...
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“An Australian beauty-lover based in Singapore”: negotiating Asian Australian identity in the beauty vlogosphere
Tisha Dejmanee
Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2024, Pages 293–300, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae009
Published: 12 April 2024
... of beauty vlogging elucidate Asian Australian identity and politics. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of Asian Australian beauty vlogger Tina Yong’s vlogs, I explore how national, ethnic, and racial identities are negotiated through platform logics, commercial imperatives, and community participation...
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Vignettes of Insight
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Grégoire Webber
The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 67, Issue 2, December 2022, Pages 327–348, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajj/auac009
Published: 22 September 2022
... in a practical insight into the good of knowledge (sec. II). Email: [email protected] I then attempt to deploy this method with respect to the good of play (sec. III) and the good of beauty’s appreciation and creation (sec. IV), in each case seeking to facilitate in my reading a practical insight. I...
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley: A Delicate Interaction
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George-Marios Angeletos and others
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 90, Issue 3, May 2023, Pages 1041–1083, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdac043
Published: 06 July 2022
... to a literature that has sought to operationalize Keynes’s famous beauty-contest metaphor for asset markets ( Bacchetta and van Wincoop, 2005 ; Allen, Morris and Shin, 2006 ; Cespa and Vives, 2012 ; Kasa, Walker and Whiteman, 2014 ). Relative to this literature, we shift the focus from asset prices to real...
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Poison by Advertisement: Cosmetics and the Art of Selling Whiteness c.1880–1920
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Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
Social History of Medicine, Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2022, Pages 389–421, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab107
Published: 10 February 2022
...Keren Rosa Hammerschlag In Ethel Turner’s classic Australian children’s book, Seven Little Australians (published 1894, but set in the 1880s), 16-year-old Meg signals her entry into womanhood through a series of beauty rituals designed to counter the effects of the Australian sun...
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Financial markets and Keynes’s long-term expectations
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Marcello Basili and Carlo Zappia
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 5, September 2021, Pages 1047–1067, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beab013
Published: 25 June 2021
... that a function accounting for Keynesian expectations can be modelled by using a class of the so-called ε-contaminated probability priors, where the parameter ε is suggestive of the quality of information about the relevant odds. Uncertainty Expectations Keynes Beauty contest ε...
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Makeup Who You Are: Self-Expression Enhances the Perceived Authenticity and Public Promotion of Beauty Work
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Rosanna K Smith and others
Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 48, Issue 1, June 2021, Pages 102–122, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaa066
Published: 26 January 2021
...Rosanna K Smith; Michelle R vanDellen; Lan Anh N Ton; Amna Kirmani; JoAndrea Hoegg Abstract Although consumers put substantial effort toward their appearance, engaging in beauty work is often seen as inauthentic, posing challenges for beauty companies that increasingly rely on social media-driven...
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Imagining the Perfect Asian Woman Through Hate: Michelle Phan, Anti-Phandom, and Asian Diasporic Beauty Cultures
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Tony Tran
Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2020, Pages 349–366, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz057
Published: 15 May 2020
...Tony Tran Corresponding author: Tony Tran; e-mail: [email protected] 12 2 2019 1 8 2019 22 10 2019 On 24 November 2014, YouTube’s most popular beauty guru Michelle Phan uploaded “HAPPY BIRTHDAY IPSY ♡.” The video provides a behind-the-scenes look at IPSY, Phan's cosmetic subscription...
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Beauty in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Is Every Child a Pearl?
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James R Thobaben and Anna Rebecca Young
Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, Volume 25, Issue 2, August 2019, Pages 227–254, https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbz006
Published: 01 July 2019
...James R Thobaben; Anna Rebecca Young The poet and the father in the NICU have this in common: they recognize in their children a deep beauty. 1 Although this language is all but disregarded at the end of modernity, or trivialized as a matter of taste, Christian practitioners need...
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Beauty, Effort, and Misrepresentation: How Beauty Work Affects Judgments of Moral Character and Consumer Preferences
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Adriana Samper and others
Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, June 2018, Pages 126–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucx116
Published: 27 November 2017
...Adriana Samper; Linyun W Yang; Michelle E Daniels; Eileen Fischer; Leonard Lee Abstract Women engage in a variety of beauty practices, or “beauty work,” to enhance their physical appearance, such as applying cosmetics, tanning, or exercising. Although the rewards of physical attractiveness...
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Smooth Trading with Overconfidence and Market Power
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Albert S Kyle and others
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 85, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 611–662, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx017
Published: 06 April 2017
... inventories smoothly adjust towards target inventories at an endogenous rate which increases with disagreement. Faster-than-equilibrium trading generates “flash crashes” by increasing temporary price impact. A “Keynesian beauty contest” dampens price fluctuations. Market microstructure Price impact...
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Even for objectivists, sleeping beauty isn’t so simple
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Kai Draper
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Analysis, Volume 77, Issue 1, January 2017, Pages 29–37, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anx038
Published: 15 March 2017
... Hx is equal to 1/2. An individual x satisfies Hx just in case x lands heads, and a triple (x, s, t) satisfies B(t, s) & Toss(x, s) just in case s is a Sleeping Beauty scenario, t is a time...
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‘Elderly years cause a Total dispaire of Conception’: Old Age, Sex and Infertility in Early Modern England
Sarah Toulalan
Social History of Medicine, Volume 29, Issue 2, May 2016, Pages 333–359, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkv067
Published: 04 July 2015
... ‘malign’ approach and a ‘prevailing impulse to de-eroticize old age’, accompanied by a ‘correspondingly scurrilous indictment of aged sexuality’, as age and beauty are opposed, eclipsing desire. 33 Similarly Anthony Ellis analysed comic representations of male humiliation in seeking sexual...
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Engineering Escherichia coli for high-level production of propionate
Lamees Akawi and others
Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, Volume 42, Issue 7, 1 July 2015, Pages 1057–1072, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-015-1627-4
Published: 01 July 2015
...-level heterologous production of propionate under microaerobic conditions in engineered Escherichia coli. Activation of the native Sleeping beauty mutase (Sbm) operon not only transformed E. coli to be propionogenic (i.e., propionate-producing) but also introduced an intracellular...
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Is moral beauty different from facial beauty? Evidence from an fMRI study
Tingting Wang and others
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2015, Pages 814–823, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu123
Published: 28 October 2014
... the face was beautiful or common. In the scene moral aesthetic (SA) judgment task, participants were instructed to judge whether the scene drawing was morally beautiful or neutral. In the face gender (FG) task, participants were instructed to judge whether the face was male or female. In the scene gender...
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The Beauty of Healing: Covenant, Eschatology, and Jonathan Edwards’ Theological Aesthetics toward a Theology of Medicine
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Kimbell Kornu
Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2014, Pages 43–58, https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbu007
Published: 21 February 2014
...Kimbell Kornu Abstract Jonathan Edwards, despite being considered one of the greatest American philosopher-theologians, has yet to grace the bioethics scene. In this essay, I contend that Edwards’ synthesis of Reformed theology and unique concept of beauty can provide a significant metaethics...
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Can Beauty Save Calvin? A Reply to Kornu
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C. Clark Carlton
Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2014, Pages 59–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbu002
Published: 18 February 2014
... of Christian Bioethics, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2014 Abstract This article argues that Dr. Kornu has failed to demonstrate how Jonathan Edward’s theology of beauty can substantively contribute to a contemporary Christian theology of medicine...
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Mycobacterium abscessus Bacteremia After Receipt of Intravenous Infusate of Cytokine-Induced Killer Cell Therapy for Body Beautification and Health Boosting
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Raymond Liu and others
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 57, Issue 7, 1 October 2013, Pages 981–991, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cit443
Published: 03 July 2013
... patients (patient 1 and 2) attended the accident and emergency department of a hospital in Hong Kong, and were diagnosed to have septic shock (Table 1 ). Both patients had received intravenous infusion of CIK cells at a beauty treatment center. The clinicians notified the Centre for Health Protection (CHP...
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