Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — Why Two People Look Alike. [ARTICLE]

Why Two People Look Alike.

The fact that two people who live long together tend to grow alike, is accounted for by unconscious mimicry reacting upon the muscles of expression in the same way that a ruling passion does. This tendency to facial imitation is very general—in fact, almost universal—and may be so marked as to be easily noticed; so that when two people are engaged in animated conversation, the expression of the listener may often be seen to echo that of the speaker. How “infectious” is a smile or a laugh, even when the idea which gave rise to it in the first case is not transferred ! [Blackwood’s Magazine.