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Ever notice that your significant other looks, well, a lot like you? It may not be a coincidence. Psychologist R. Chris Fraley of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign digitally morphed subjects' faces with strangers' faces; he found that morphed faces were more attractive to subjects when their own face was included, USA Today reports.



"When you have a face that looks more like you, you tend to trust it more and think it looks more cooperative," Tony Little, a research fellow in psychology at the University of Stirling in Scotland who is studying the role of the human face in mating choices, told the paper.

An upcoming dating website, Find Your FaceMate, even uses facial-recognition software to suggest romantic matches. Sounds kind of creepy to us, but we do see a lot of couples who kinda look alike. Is it just a coincidence? Or maybe we're all just in love with ourselves?

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What's with Psychologists releasing Studies that almost never apply to a majority The people on ********?
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It's not all just ego. People who look like ourselves reflect our general family looks. Since we mostly love our families, similar-looking people look like people we love. No mystery there.
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I guess I do, I mean in a way...I find guys (well just people in genral) with brown hair are way more attractive than guys with blonde hair. And I have brown hair.
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I would have to say no cause my bf is Mexican and I am not. I'm not sure how more different you could get other than white and black.
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I'm not attracted to women who look like men
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i find this to be true i admire people that look like me i want to talk to them and be near them but i watch myself alot too maybe im just vain
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But unfortunately, NOBODY looks like me.
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I have celebrity crush on Sandra Bullock. She looks nothing like me!
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There should be a third answer like "undecided". Actually, I do not know if I would be attracted or not by somebody looking like me, as sympathy is more mental.
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Well, I don't think I find guys that look like me attractive, but my chick friends and I all look alike O.o
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I love me...so why not? lol
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People who look like me scare me to death.
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I am a matchmaker, and most of my clients want to meet someone who looks the opposite. Dark guys tend to like the blondes and lighter women like the darker haired men.. when looks are concerned, I think opposites do attract. I have red hair and love the dark look.
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not in the least. I like being original. if I saw someone who looked like me I would probably think it was a clone and I would kill them.
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I have yet to see anybody who shares that misfortune.
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I haven't met any girl who looks like me, but even though I'm not necessarily an ugly person, I don't think my features would translate well to a female face.
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I do like redheads though and i am one. XD
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Total bull. You trust who you trust and like who you like. All I have to say is whoever wasted their time on this research proved little to nothing.
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Now that I think about it, kind of. I usually feel atracted to guys with dark brown or black hair and big light brown(or sometimes green, but, yeah...) eyes ._. I always thought I just had type
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I don't. I don't see why people would want someone that looks like they could be related to the. Studies say that people do but that just promotes the idea that incest may be built into our subconscious mind. Thank goodness for diversity, I would love to marry someone outside of my ethnic background. Experiencing the variety of people this world has to offer is a lot more rewarding than simply finding someone to screw that just so happens to look like they could be your fraternal twin
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I think I'm fat, so no. I have got anorexia, but the weakest, so I'm fat!
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an old friend said that i look like the girl i like. i second that notion
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Maybe somewhat but I can't think of anything particular. It also creeps me out when I see couples that look like siblings
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I have dark hair and I am definitely more attracted to brunette men with olive skin.
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No especially although I prefer dark hair (I have dark brown hair). That being said, when I was in high school everyone thought me and my boyfriend were brother and sister.
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I'm attracted to girls with a similar body type to me. I'm not attracted to petite girls, and rarely to girls with blonde hair.
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Unless someone looked like my exact twin, then I would never even consider going out with someone who looked like me!
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no one looks like me :p
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The girl I'm seeing and dating now looks a lot like me when it comes to character, interests and humour and thats why we work out a great couple.

so in that case I say yes
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I'm very attracted to people who look different, especially women.
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People seem to misunderstand the broadness of what is meant by "Looks like you." Someone who is considered to look like you might have the same hair and eye colors, as well as the clothes they wear, ect. As far as the sibling argument goes, humans are usually naturally not attracted to their siblings. Why? Because inbreeding is bad for humanity, and we instinctively know and avoid it. People who use this argument are pretty much saying that it is impossible to find their siblings attractive simply because they think they are ugly. There is a very definite line between thinking someone is attractive and wanting to have *** with them. Plenty of people have lots of social biases against people who are different, due to stereotypes. A brunette might not like blondes simply because there is always that underlying competition of which is more attractive or whatever the **** it is. Not only this, but of course other things such as racism and religious issues. In the ***, a white, athiest brunette man marries a white athiest brunette woman, and it just so happens that they look a lot alike because of how they chose each other, and not simply because they look like you and that is good enough for you.

Now that I have gotten started, there are indeed a lot of behavioral traits that ten...

People seem to misunderstand the broadness of what is meant by "Looks like you." Someone who is considered to look like you might have the same hair and eye colors, as well as the clothes they wear, ect. As far as the sibling argument goes, humans are usually naturally not attracted to their siblings. Why? Because inbreeding is bad for humanity, and we instinctively know and avoid it. People who use this argument are pretty much saying that it is impossible to find their siblings attractive simply because they think they are ugly. There is a very definite line between thinking someone is attractive and wanting to have *** with them. Plenty of people have lots of social biases against people who are different, due to stereotypes. A brunette might not like blondes simply because there is always that underlying competition of which is more attractive or whatever the **** it is. Not only this, but of course other things such as racism and religious issues. In the ***, a white, athiest brunette man marries a white athiest brunette woman, and it just so happens that they look a lot alike because of how they chose each other, and not simply because they look like you and that is good enough for you.

Now that I have gotten started, there are indeed a lot of behavioral traits that tend to match up with how a person looks. People can argue this one way or another, and there are exceptions, but the "level" of attractiveness often has an effect on how a person acts, whether is is kindness or cruelty, or level of intelligence. This might seem like a crappy thing to say, but it is true. Ever hear the phrase "The truth hurts?" Anyway, back to the logic. Personality traits commonly go along with how attractive or unattractive a person considers themselves, as well as how attractive others have considered them. If a person is attractive, they can get away with having personality flaws simply because they are overshadowed by the other person's desires to have an attractive significant other. Whereas a person who might be considered unattractive will compensate by being kinder and more giving. Again, there are exceptions, there are plenty of kind, attractive people, and plenty of mean unattractive people. BUT, stereotypes exist for a reason, as mean as it might be to say. This ties into the argument because of course people like to and often will choose a significant other based on personality rather than looks. Despite people trying to say it doesn't matter, even if you really didn't care how your significant other looks, it has likely had a huge effect on your choice because of how personality tends to connect to looks. In the ***, you like someone with a similar personality to you, and guess what? They probably look a bit like yourself.

It is both coincidental and part of a scheme. It seems to just sort of happen, but it is likely that you were destined to be together by a long chain of psychological occurrences that may or may not have been described above. Please note that there are indeed exceptions, even lots of them. I am not saying that everyone is affected by all of these things, or even any of them at all, but the point I am trying to prove is that this topic is very valid. I am more than willing to expand on the topics I have provided, but won't for now because I have already written far too much.
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.... That's dumb. My parents look absolutely nothing alike, so I don't think it's true.
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i love to be good and rare.....let me say- "a rare specie"
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Definitely not
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I'm ugly as sin so no.
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coure your not.
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im unique there's no one out there can be me
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