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Beauty under the knife

What role do emotion and sense/perception play in the decision to undergo cosmetic surgery?

Justification

Picture source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jan/30/plastic-surgery-statistics-uk

Wealthy older ladies vs. younger in age

Emotion "A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes"

source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/emotion

Sense/perception "the awareness of things through our five senses: site, sound, touch, taste and smell"

Theory of knowledge, Richard van de Lagemaat, Cambridge (2005-2011), page 85

summary of the introduction

Human science

  • Psychological factors to why men and woman undergo cosmetic surgery

Body dysmorphic disorder

  • a type of chronic mental illness in which you can't stop thinking about a flaw with your appearance — a flaw that is either minor or imagined.

Natural science

  • Sexual selection - Darwinism - Peacock

Mathematics

  • The golden ratio: two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one.
  • Φ = 1.618 033 ...
  • The Fibonacci Sequence: sequence of numbers in which 1 appears twice as the first two numbers, and every subsequent number is the sum of two preceding numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ... and so on. As it continues, the ratio between any number and its successor approaches the ratio of golden section (1:1.618)
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