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"Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder, but not in the sense that it is completely arbitrary and variable from person to person. Rather, beauty lies in the processing experience of the beholder, and experience that is strongly determined by how objective stimulus properties influence perceptual and cognitive fluency."

first midterm is tomorrow agh my nerves!!!

orbitofrontal cortex + periaqueductal grey + dopamine + oxytocin… ya this is probably not what you'd consider light reading b4 bed lol

I am one chapter away from where I wanna be wooooo

i know what documentary i'm going to watch once i'm through with this book: "con man", aka the story of the impostor who conned his way into princeton

'our sense of who we are is forged in our interactions with others, shaping, in turn, how we interact with others and how they see themselves.' also certain parts of the brain like the medial prefrontal cortex and the temporal-parietal junction are heightened during self-referential cognition and reflected self-appraisal. how v interesting. in other news this chapter is taking me forever to finish

rly interesting so far and I'm rly excited to get to the chapter on emotion and attitudes but i still have a while to go before that :-)