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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:46:31 PST
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- From: Stephanie Fishkin <fishkin@SCF.USC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Attractiveness
- In-Reply-To: <9301260342.AA04445@aludra.usc.edu>; from "Matthew Prull" at Jan
- 25, 93 7:40 pm
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- >
- > Tor Neilands writes:
- >
- > >I think the last point raised about "couples who look like one another" is
- > >an interesting phenomenon---one has to wonder how much of that happens from
- > >similar others getting together (folks of similar attractiveness levels)
- > >vs. two people getting together and changing each other such that they
- > >become more similar to each other over time? Is it the chicken or the egg?
- >
- > Matthew Prull responds:
- >
- > You know, I could swear that Robert Zajonc did some research on this
- > on this a while back. I'm pretty sure that he generally found that
- > couples that have lived together for many years, like 30-40 or so,
- > begin to resemble each other facially. That is, their faces change
- > over time so that they begin to resemble each other. Don't ask me
- > what the reference is, it's been a while since I looked at that one!
- >
- > If we can say that this is true, how can we explain it? Seems to me
- > that when someone is deeply enamored or attached to a significant
- > other in their life they tend to imitate that person in various ways.
- > Every once in a while I catch myself talking like my girlfriend, using
- > some idiosyncratic verbal inflections or whatever. Basically,
- > sometimes I sound like her. I've even temporarily adopted some
- > mannerisms exhibited by those professors whom I respect and admire.
- > Anyway, maybe it's possible that when two people who are emotionally
- > attached to each other for a long period of time and unconsciously
- > imitate each other for years and years simply are using the same
- > facial muscles, and, subsequently, begin to resemble each other
- > because they act alike. ??? This is a stretch, but it does pose some
- > interesting thoughts.
- >
-
- I too seem to find that my S.O. and me have adapted each other's facial and
- speech patterns over the years, although we both borrowed heavily from
- a former roommate of mine!
-
- Also, don't people tend to look like their dogs too?
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- 8)
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