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Comment by meitham | Hacker News Reader

There’s an old Arabic philosophy that also suggests facial similarities between people that share similar thinking, or more like your facial features will develop according to your personality traits so eventually your look will converge to your likeminded. The theory goes further by classifying these looks into the closest animal and the traits from that animal.

The specific theory is bogus, but is the general principle completely unthinkable? For instance, some facial features might correlate with hormone exposure during development, which in turn might correlate with brain development and thus character traits. Might not be a very strong correlation, of course, but human brains are exceptional in pattern recognition when it comes to facial features.

Yup. It's pretty easy to look at Boss Hogg and Bob Ross and tell who they would have voted for in 2020.

So like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology but for the front of your head rather than the top.

I've just found it's referred to as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy

See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry

Thank you for putting all the references for something I vaguely came across. I will have a very long read this evening

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science

If you look similar you probably come from the same place. If you come from the same place you were probably exposed to the same culture. If you were exposed to the same culture you probably hold very similar worldviews.

I mean, it's not that deep of a theory, especially in the old days were people moved a lot less and culture norms were strongly enforced

I suppose that it could also be true that the facial expressions that someone regularly makes influences the wrinkles that develop as they age.

No. Another kind user @badcppdev posted links to these theories up in the thread. You will find these various similarities across cultures and races, and you will find differences within one family and village.

What he linked is not relevant to what I said, plus I used a probabilistic and not deterministic argument.

You could deduce where people came from by how they looked because the world was much more inbred and isolated in the past. As such you could correlate physical characteristic with cultural upbringings and thus worldviews.

Isn't there something similar elsewhere where the owners and dogs are supposed to look or behave like each other?

edit: search for "Like owner, like dog"

e.g., https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/smarter-you-think/20...

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