C But what exactly is beauty? Trying to define it is difficult, and yet we know it when we
see it-or so we think. "Beauty is health," says one psychologist. "It's a billboard saying.
Tm healthy. I can pass on your genes." And our awareness of it may start at a very early
age. In one set of studies, six-month-old babies were shown a series of photographs.
The faces in the pictures had been rated for attractiveness by a group of college students.
In the studies, the babies spent more time looking at the attractive faces than the
