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03-01-2017, 09:37 AM
Your name could shape your face, new study suggests
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Long before anyone k**ws what we'll really look like, we're given the label we will probably carry for the rest of our lives — our name. But what if your appearance, particularly your face, somehow reflected the name you were given at birth?
A new study (http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspa0000076.pdf) suggests that each person's face, insanely e**ugh, could actually be shaped by his or her name.
So that would mean, yes, that Sarah really does look like a Sarah, and that Fred really does look like a Fred. Basically, the new findings could finally give some credence to all those weird, usually seemingly baseless assumptions you might have the first time you hear a new name, as NPR (http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/27/517496915/your-name-might-shape-your-face-researchers-say) reports. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/02/28/study-faces-match-names/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Long before anyone k**ws what we'll really look like, we're given the label we will probably carry for the rest of our lives — our name. But what if your appearance, particularly your face, somehow reflected the name you were given at birth?
A new study (http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspa0000076.pdf) suggests that each person's face, insanely e**ugh, could actually be shaped by his or her name.
So that would mean, yes, that Sarah really does look like a Sarah, and that Fred really does look like a Fred. Basically, the new findings could finally give some credence to all those weird, usually seemingly baseless assumptions you might have the first time you hear a new name, as NPR (http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/27/517496915/your-name-might-shape-your-face-researchers-say) reports. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/02/28/study-faces-match-names/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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