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Sense Of Beauty Essay

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Nowadays, people have many definitions about beauty. Some people define beauty as confidence to being themselves. They believe it appear when a particular individual is beautiful without wearing a right cloth and using a lot of makeup. Some people believe beauty appear on a person who has a good soul and heart such as kind hearted, hardworking, tolerance, cooperative and other good values. People who did something good to other or society without requesting payback is considered as beauty too. People who willing sacrifice them for other because of love are also consider beauty. Besides, some people also defines beauty as that which brings pleasure to themselves when they look at a person’s looks that is based on physical looking of human. …show more content…

The sense of beauty can be affected by the opioid receptor which in human brain region. The opioid receptor are an important part of the biochemical reward system. They take role in human attachment and bonding. The opioid morphine will be stimulated when human are attractive. The opioid system controls “liking” sense of human. The dopamine system is the part of brain controls sense of “wanting”. Furthermore, liking and wanting are different (Lewis, 2014). Liking is attraction to an object but wanting is a motivation to have it, whether likes it or not. From the research, the sense of beauty will be effect by the amount of opioid morphine in human brain. When the receptors in the opioid system are stimulated, male will find attractive faces of heterosexual female even more beauty than before. On the other hand, the effects of beauty faces are lessened on them when the opioid receptor are inhibiting. The levels of perceive beauty are related to the intensity of human neurotransmitters. Besides, the opioid system produce rewarding feelings when seeing attractive mates and making unattractive mates less desirable. It helps humans choose the best mate by control the desirable. The opioid system is signal evolutionary fitness. “Facial attractiveness is a powerful cue that affects social communication and motivates sexual behaviour” (Bushak,

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