Henrik Hogh-Olesen is Professor of Social & Personality Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has published 13 academic books and more than 100 articles, published works of fiction and drama, is an expert on behavioral & evolutionary psychology, and has studied humans, apes, and monkeys in naturalistic and experimental settings.

Provides a brief introduction to major areas of inquiry: whether the pursuit of aesthetic stimulation is driven by pleasure or need, how aesthetic pursuit may have been conditioned in prehistory, how aesthetic value is connected to reproductive success, how our proclivity for decoration is rooted in a biological need to signal fitness and social status, and how aesthetic behavior is at the biological, psychological, and neurological foundation of the human species.

Henrik Hogh-Olesen is Professor of Social & Personality Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has published 13 academic books and more than 100 articles, published works of fiction and drama, is an expert on behavioral & evolutionary psychology, and has studied humans, apes, and monkeys in naturalistic and experimental settings.

Provides a brief introduction to major areas of inquiry: whether the pursuit of aesthetic stimulation is driven by pleasure or need, how aesthetic pursuit may have been conditioned in prehistory, how aesthetic value is connected to reproductive success, how our proclivity for decoration is rooted in a biological need to signal fitness and social status, and how aesthetic behavior is at the biological, psychological, and neurological foundation of the human species.