Table of contents:
- A similar face is a sign of a match? How come?
- What causes couples to look alike?
- 1. Choose a partner from the same environment
- 2. Like seeing a reflection of yourself
- 3. The happier, the more similar they look
- 4. Have been through a lot together
Have you ever come across a pair of lovers who look alike? Or is it that you and your partner are often said to have similar faces? It is said that he said, lovers whose faces are similar is a sign that they are destined. So, is this true? This is the explanation according to experts.
A similar face is a sign of a match? How come?
Maybe it's not once or twice that you have stumbled across a pair of lovers who have similar faces. In fact, because too often, you can predict if the two of them are destined. Indeed, there are many assumptions circulating in society that people with affinity tend to have similar faces. Not only face, but also some characteristics, behavior, and habits that are not much different.
If you currently have a partner, try to reflect on yourself and your partner. Is it true that there is something similar about both of you, whether it's in terms of faces or habits?
Researchers have long studied this special phenomenon. According to Ty Tashiro, an author of The Science of Happily Ever After, there is actually an element of tendency that makes a person prefer a partner who has something in common with him. That is why, they will find it easier to get along with each other.
This finding is reinforced by research from the University of Liverpool, England, which asked study participants to select two photos, one each of a man and one woman, and then assess the personality of the person they chose. Uniquely, most of the participants chose a pair of photos which turned out to be a couple who had been married for a long time.
The participants chose the pair because they were judged to have similar personalities. Therefore, the researchers concluded that having similar personalities could be the reason the faces of the two partners looked similar.
However, if at this time you feel that you and your partner are not similar, it does not mean that you are not matched. The reason is, Robert Zajonc, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, analyzed photos of the couple taken when they were newlyweds and compared them with photos after 25 years of marriage.
The results show that it turns out that the longer the couple is together, the more likely they are to have a personality or a resemblance to one another. Interestingly, the shared happiness factor can also be a trigger for the emergence of physical similarities between the two partners.
What causes couples to look alike?
1. Choose a partner from the same environment
The simplest reason why lovers look alike is because most of them choose partners who are in the same neighborhood. For example, because of one school, a circle of friends, to a scope of work.
The intensity of this meeting, which then fosters a compatibility between you and your partner because of the similarity of habits. In the end grew in love with each other.
2. Like seeing a reflection of yourself
Most people decide to anchor their hearts to people who they think are similar to themselves, both physically and in character. Take for example, every day you will look in the mirror so you can really understand how the shape of the face and body in detail. This includes the shape of your eyes, nose, lips, jaw and more.
Because knowing yourself well is what then unconsciously becomes your benchmark in choosing a partner. You are more likely to like someone who has criteria that are very similar or even very similar to you.
To Readers Digest, Anthony Little, a lecturer at the University of Stirling said that this was caused by"Visual exposure" meaning that the more often we see something, the more we will like it. Well, you actually have often seen the figure of a partner in yourself.
3. The happier, the more similar they look
As mentioned earlier, the happiness factor plays a role in making the faces of a couple look alike. How come? Look, the face is actually not necessarily because the shape of the eyebrows and nose you and your partner are exactly the same. Similar faces could be because you both smile and laugh a lot. Over time the facial lines around the mouths of you and your partner form a similar smile wrinkle, so that the expressions on your faces look similar.
Studies have also shown that the more things you and your partner have in common, the more likely it is that you and your partner will stay together for a long time.
4. Have been through a lot together
Besides the happiness factor while spending time together, lovers can also look more alike after going through a lot of things together for quite a long time. Maybe you have noticed, lovers who at first seem normal, even tend not to look alike at all.
But over time, they look more and more compatible with each other. Well, because of the many things they have been through that can unconsciously influence facial expressions to the couple's behavior.
Suppose your partner has a distinctive serious facial expression. Since you have been in a relationship with him for a long time and see this expression every day, you are unconsciously imitating this serious expression. No wonder so many people then comment that you both look alike.
