Ep 70: 2022 Skincare Trends Part 3- Intelligent Beauty

Beauty is a topic of fascination throughout millennia. Gustav Fechner, the pioneer of modern psychology proposed a set of metrics which could be used to statistically define the experience of beauty. Known as psychophysics, he examined the relationship between the material and the mental world, known as “die geistige Welt” in German, which translates literally to the spiritual universe. In contemporary models involving the psychology of beauty, it is primarily regarded as an undefined aesthetic response. There have been diverse interpretations of beauty as an experience. Philosophers have hypothesised that beauty must possess an inherent element of surprise. It’s also been ascribed to pleasure as a visceral sensation. Psychologists have debated that beauty itself innately must be universal, which may explain our preference for familiar objects. Interestingly, Immanuel Kant famously proposed that beauty, in contrast to sensuous pleasures, required thought. Is beauty an emotion after all? In this podcast, Dr. Teo Wan Lin, author of “On Thoughts, Emotions, Facial Expressions and Aging” a research letter published in the International Journal of Dermatology, shares more about beauty in the context of the brain-skin connection. Want more of our podcast? Episode Recaps and Notes:https://www.scienceofbeauty.net/; Instagram: @drteowanlin; Youtube: http://bit.ly/35rjbve