Do we have an organic mechanism in our brain that responds to beauty? Or is recognition of beauty something that we need to learn?
In other words, is recognition of beauty biological or cultural? It’s a difficult thing to test, because you can’t remove a biological human from his or her culture. Anything along these lines that you try to test will always be influenced by cultural influences upon the person you are testing.
One question we might ask is to what extent perception of beauty differs between cultures. If a person is considered beautiful in one culture, will they necessarily be considered beautiful in a different culture?
Something to think about.