Beauty and the Brain

The phrase “easy on the eyes” may hit closer to the mark than we suspected. Experiments led by Piotr Winkielman, of the University of California, San Diego, and published in the current issue of Psychological Science, suggest that judgments of attractiveness depend on mental processing ease, or being “easy on the mind.”

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news78506308.html">Beauty and the Brain</a></p> <p>The phrase “easy on the eyes” may hit closer to the mark than we suspected. Experiments led by Piotr Winkielman, of the University of California, San Diego, and published in the current issue of <i>Psychological Science</i>, suggest that judgments of attractiveness depend on mental processing ease, or being “easy on the mind.” <br></p>