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Just My Imagination: Beauty premium and the evolved mental model
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 March 2017
Abstract
Imagination, an important feature of the human mind, may be at the root of the beauty premium. The evolved human capacity for simulating the real world, developed as an adaptation to a complex social environment, may offer the key to understanding this and many other aspects of human behavior.
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