(cited in: Grammer, 1974) If Darwin is right, and there are no general criteria for asses- sing beauty, then beauty lies wholly in the eyes of the behol- der. Aesthetics would then be a matter of individual taste. One of the few cultural-comparative studies contradicts this hypothesis. Morse (et al. 1978) conducted assessments of attractiveness in the U.S.A. and in South Africa. Both of the cultural circles studied showed a high degree of concor- dance in assessing the attractiveness of people. Apparent- ly, within a given culture men and women used the same standards to describe physical attractiveness (Grammer, 1994; p. 151). One of the first studies on this subject carried out by Iliffe (1960) speaks in favour of assuming a general notion of beau- ty. Under the motto “Who is the most beautiful in all the land?” he had the readers of an English journal assess twelve pictures of young women. He obtained 4,355 answers and concluded that one and the same portrait of a woman was deemed the most beautiful in different parts of the country and by individuals from different professional groups.
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