Scientific study answers whether two couples face the same face over time

That this is actually happening since the 1980s, and since then this prejudice has entered psychology courses. Yet, this obsession was never scientifically confirmed or denied.

Now, scientists from Stanford University in the United States have put modern technology into operation. They have analyzed thousands of public photographs of various couples, reports the Guardian, the Periscope.

This is something that people believe in and we were also curious,” said Pin Pin Tea-Markon, PhD student at Stanford. Our original “Thinking was that if people's faces look like the passing of time, we should look at what type of traits they're like?

He and his colleague, Milchal Kosinski, compiled a database of photographs from 517 couples between the ages of 20 and 69.

To test whether couples' faces were becoming more similar to each other over time, researchers showed volunteers a photo of the person “targeted” accompanied by six other faces, one of which would be a partner, with five random selections. Volunteers were then asked to rank the similarities of each of the six faces with the targeted individual.

The Stanford study, based on these data, found that there was no evidence that couples grew the infertile similarities between each other over time. /Periscope