Religion s Influence On Culture - 1459 Words

The extreme was found to be Christians, who were willing to forgive everything and almost required to from their religion’s rules. However, Judaism only forgives to a limit. Jews consider violent actions like murder unforgivable and therefore stand apart from Christians on this very issue. This then creates a different sort of belief system and culture within the two denominations. In his analysis, Adam Cohen subtly shows the effects religion has on culture and how it subdivides people into communities of beliefs and values. Because states like beliefs and values make up part of what culture is in society you can therefore safely assume that religion plays a role in the different perceptions that take place within cultures. Hence, then†¦show more content†¦The part of society they looked at was facial attractiveness, specifically symmetry. The researchers found that as young as age two, children preferred faces of more attractive adults and this inclines that perception could be more natural than cultural, contradicting the past two research journals previously summarized. The experimenters, Rhodes, Proffitt, Grady, and Sumich studied this idea by creating multiple experiments by showing participants three different symmetrically blended mirror neutral black and white face images. The first being a high-symmetry image, the second was the original face image with a normal symmetry, and the third was a low-symmetry image. The participants were told to rate all images on attractiveness. They were also directed to rate the order of attractiveness on the opposite-sex faces on appeal as a potential life partner. The participants in this study were sixty-four university students, 32 males and 32 females. The results to this study showed that equal symmetry or as called in the experiment perfect images were chosen as the most attractive and most chosen for mate selection. These results indicate that what we perceive of others and for mate selection is a very public and a natural perception among humans. The effect of facial symmetry as well did not correlate with the initial attractiveness of the image. Ratings for male and female images