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Study: Face changes over time to match name

2024-08-01 18:23:53Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Study: Face changes over time to match name
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The way people look can be determined by the name their parents gave them.

A recent study concludes that people's faces tend to evolve throughout life to match their names.

"With growth, individuals tend to look like their names," the researchers write. "These results suggest that people develop according to the stereotype they were given at birth."

Thanks to computer technology, experts analyzed the similarities and differences between the faces of people with the same name.

"We found that adults with the same name have more facial similarities to each other than to those with different names, but children with the same name do not show this pattern," the study says.

The researchers used computer programs to add age to images of children, which were given to participants in the experiment to match them with names. The participants did not succeed in associating the faces with the names correctly, as they had done for the adults.

Study: Face changes over time to match name
Examples of questions taken from the study showing an adult with possible names (left) and a child with possible names (right)

Known as "social structuring," the application of labels and stereotypes is theoretically thought to affect our physical and psychological development, although quantifying the weight of this effect has so far proved challenging.

However, the researchers insist that "social structuring is so strong that it can affect a person's appearance."

The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


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