Research Source Log for Online Source

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”  Ex: “Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?”	"All stereotypes are true, except... II: 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder'"
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV	Satoshi Kanazawa
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )  Ex: CBC News	Psychology Today
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC	Sussex Publishers
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010	April 27, 2008
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012	10 February 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it) Ex: <http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/09/twilight-is-a-negative-influence-on-teens-or-just-harmless-fun.html>	http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200805/all-stereotypes-are-true-except-iii-beauty-is-only-skin-de

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV).

Across different cultures, "people possess different standards or beauty [not] everyone agrees on who is beautiful and who is not" (Kanazawa).

Although different cultures have diverse perspectives on beauty, "It appears that [they] share the same standards of beauty because they are innate" (Kanazawa).

Small children "play significantly longer with facially attractive dolls than with facially unattractive dolls" suggesting human instinct of wanting someone physically attractive (Kanazawa).

In other cultures around the world, some aspects of the human body prove more beauteous than others, but "some of them look quite bizarre to the contemporary western eye" (Kanazawa).

Infants have "not learned or acquired [the concept of beauty] through socialization", which provides evidence that we already know basic knowledge of beauty before we can even walk (Kanazawa).

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):

Satoshi Kanazawa, the author of "

All stereotypes are true, except... II: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"", explains how cultural standards alter our perception of beauty. Despite cultural differences however, we are born with basic knowledge of what is deemed beautiful and what is not. Studies involving infants interacting with different people indicate that they preferred playing with the ones who were more attractive. This suggests that we can distinguish from the attractive and unattractive before social media taints our image.

Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?

The author of this article is Satoshi Kanazawa,  an evolutionary psychologist at LSE.

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?  

The author is simply being informative.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?

No, I do not detect a bias in the author's writing. He based his article on the studies he mentions.

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

No, the author does not cite any reference in the writing.

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?



I will use this source to point out humans' innate skill to identify beauty despite cultural backgrounds.