What do you think of as beautiful in a person? Research into attractiveness offers up explanations ranging from facial symmetry to familiarity -- or do the standards change for each situation? The people in this video clip would probably not be considered conventionally beautiful. The sports company Nike, however, assembled all of these people for a commercial that challenges convention, breaks with tradition, and in the process won a Clio Award, the commercials equivalent of the Oscar.

Please watch the following video clip and answer the corresponding follow-up questions.

Beautiful

1			What do you think -- are these people beautiful? How does the context of the commercial affect your judgment of beauty?
2			The biological approach to sexuality would suggest that attractiveness judgments are based on the attractive person’s health and strength. Are scars from injuries more attractive, in the biological point of view, or less?