Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

Perceived facial similarity in children is an estimate of kin recognition

Published in Genetics and Environmental Law Weekly, October 14th, 2006

Perceived facial similarity of children is effectively an estimate of the probability that two children are close genetic relatives, according to a new study recently published in Journal of Vision, an online, free access publication of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).

Participants in the study judged pairs of pictures of children, half of which portrayed actual siblings. In one condition, participants were only asked to rate the facial similarity of each pair of children. In a second condition, participants were asked to classify each pair as sibling or non-siblings. Researchers found that the mean similarity ratings of the first...

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Source: Genetics and Environmental Law Weekly (2006-10-14)

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