We’ve all had the experience of looking at a picture — of a sunset, a person, a sleek vehicle or adorable animal — and finding it enormously pleasing.
But why? Are we culturally conditioned to gain pleasure from certain images and not others, or is there something else going on in our brains?
![A person putting clothes in a box that says "donation".](https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/styles/ne_3btn_widget/public/woman-donating-lead.jpg?itok=rneX-dmd "A person putting clothes in a box that says "donation".")
