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Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

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Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

Beauty, Heart, Ideal, Pinups, Plato

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

Enslaved, Idea, Ideas, Myth, Real, Unimportant

The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

Beauty, Ideas, Myth, Real, Unimportant

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

Touching, Listening, Essentials, Life, Looking

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

Formula, Happy, Inspiration, Motivation, Negative, Positive

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

Mirrors, Part, Public, Self, World

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

Beauty, Dream, Imagination, Saturate, Equal

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

Beauty, Army, Priorities, Members, Brazil

When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive. . . abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

Cute, Children, Kids, Studied, Proportions

Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

Athletic, Beauty, Like, Peaks, Physical, Skills

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

Beauty, Bodies, Names, Painted, People, Plucked