According To Study Findings, For These 6 Reasons Couples Often Face Similar

This is the reason why couples often look like this (Pexels/Alex Green)

JAKARTA – Couples who have similar faces are not just a myth. The reason, a number of studies scientifically prove the resemblance of two people who are committed in a romantic relationship. This phenomenon is often the subject of discussion, that people who are in pairs are like 'brothers and sisters' or like siblings because they are so similar.

Karen Wu, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, reported by Psychology Today, lays out the reasons why couples sometimes look like siblings.

1. Interest bias

In a study in the United States, attractiveness bias was found among many racial groups including white, black, latin, asian. Within the heterosexual group, all four racial groups gave higher attractiveness ratings to members of the same race of the other sex. But Latinos and Asian Americans find white people more attractive.

That is, there is a possibility that someone is subconsciously attracted to someone who is of the same race. So they have the potential to have similar skin color, hair, and facial structure.

2. Familiarity effect

People may look more alike at first glance because they have a familiarity effect. They tend to like repeated stimuli and stimuli so that the brain responds pleasantly. In a study examining the effects of familiarity, they found that more distinctive faces were rated as less attractive and more familiar faces were rated as more attractive.

3. Unknowingly find a match similar to their parents

A study found that there is sexual imprinting, also known as the process of subconsciously wanting and finding a partner who looks just like their parents.

4. Emotional closeness with parents

Individuals have preferences, and it was found in studies of heterosexual women who reported greater emotional closeness to their fathers more likely to prefer male faces that resembled themselves.

5. Personality is reflected on the face

One study found that facial personality perception predicts facial resemblance and their likelihood of a match. Similar couples, according to researchers, have similar personalities as a result of cognitive assessments. In other words, people may pair up with those who look like themselves because they share the same personality.

6. Empathic mimicry

Researchers in his study collected pictures of the couple as newlyweds and 25 years later. They found that partners became more similar in appearance over time, and that this increase in similarity predicted greater relationship quality.

Similar facial features, according to researchers, are called empathic mimicry. Through empathy for one another, partners may feel the same emotions and make similar facial expressions. It further leads to similar movements of the facial muscles over long periods of time together.

Closed by Karen Wu, it is easy for a couple to have facial resemblance due to their personality, lifestyle, emotions, and facial expressions, and perhaps also because they are happy when they are together.