夫妻長廝守 會越長越像

夫妻長廝守 會越長越像

【聯合報╱編譯張佑生／綜合報導】 2010.06.30 02:31 am

人們常說「夫妻臉」，在一起久了，夫妻會愈長愈像。至於原因，科學家現在有了答案。 密西根大學心理學專家查瓊克（Robert Zajonc）進行實驗以驗證這種現象。他分析比較許多夫妻在新婚與婚後25年拍下的照片，結果發現夫妻會因歲月推移，使得外表更加相似。 生活愈快樂的夫妻，相似度也愈高。這項研究發表在LiveScience.com。 查瓊克指出，年長夫妻更為相似，是因為兩人朝夕相處多年，會模仿彼此的面部表情。換言之，如果另一半具有幽默感，臉部笑出法令紋，伴侶可能也差不多。 其他的研究也顯示，男性和女性最初可能因個性相似而相吸。利物浦大學的科學家2006年在一項研究中，要求參與者從許多張男女個人照片中，判斷每個人的個性。參與者並不曉得相片主角彼此間的關係。結果發現，結婚愈久的夫妻被判斷個性類似處愈多。 人類甚至可能天生會與某些方面擁有相似DNA的人戀愛。 西安大略大學的科學家曾在一項針對雙胞胎的研究中發現，雙胞胎不僅會挑選基因類似的伴侶，同卵雙胞胎配偶外表的相似度，也比異卵雙胞胎配偶更高。 專家表示，夫妻開始形成夫妻臉，可能因為在某些方面彼此已經十分相似了。 【2010/06/30 聯合報】 Why couples start looking like each other ANI, Jul 4, 2010, 12.00am IST All of us have seen that the longer a couple stays together, the greater they resemble each other, and researchers have now revealed why it is so. University of Michigan psychologist Robert Zajonc conducted an experiment to test how long and happily-clad couples grow facial similarities and gradually start to look like each other physically. He analysed photographs of couples taken when they were newlyweds and photographs of the same couples taken 25 years later. The results showed that the couples had grown to look more like each other over time, reports English.news.cn. In addition, he revealed that the happier that the couple said they were, the more likely they were to have increased in their physical similarity. Zajonc suggested that older couples looked more alike because people in close contact mimic each other's facial expressions. In other words, if your partner has a good sense of humour and laughs a lot, he or she will probably develop laugh lines around their mouth - and so will you. Other evidence has also shown that men and women may be initially attracted to partners with similar personalities. It turns out we may even be hard-wired to fall in love with people sporting DNA that is similar to our own in some ways. In a study of twins, University of Western Ontario scientists found that not only did the study participants tend to pick partners with similar genes, the spouses of the identical twins were also more alike than the spouses of non-identical twins. The study was published in Live Science . Source: The Time of India