It's Over For namecels, study confirms names shape your actual facial appearance

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405334121

Prior research has shown that individuals’ facial appearance can be indicative of their given names. The present study probes the origins of this face–name matching effect: whether names are given based on innate facial characteristics or whether individuals’ facial appearance changes to match their name over time. Using both humans and machine learning algorithms, our findings indicate that while adults demonstrate congruence between their facial appearance and name, this pattern is not observed in children nor in children’s faces digitally aged to adult appearance. This discrepancy signifies a developmental process whereby individuals acquire face–name congruency as they mature. It suggests that characteristics associated with stereotypes are not necessarily innate but may develop through a self-fulfilling prophecy

Basically, they've let people guess people's, both kids' and adults', names, based purely on their photographs, and while for children it was impossible to guess the name correctly more often than in 25% of cases as would be expected given the four possible answers, for adults people have consistently been able to do so above simple chance. Although the effect is rather minor overall, this shows that people, as they mature, develop the facial traits expected of their names in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy (or maybe because their parents know how people are supposed to look like based on their names and can guess how their children will end up looking when looking in the mirror. The scientists think it's the former.)

The proposed explanation was that this effect results from a self-fulfilling prophecy. This conjecture builds on the notion that a name is a stereotype that carries social meanings and expectations (6–9), eventually enabling a shared representation regarding what the “right name” most likely is for a specific face (10). As years go by, people internalize the characteristics and expectations associated with their name and embrace them, consciously or unconsciously, in their identity and choices (2, 11, 12). Facial appearance may be affected by this process directly, as when a person chooses specific features according to these expectations [e.g., hairstyle, glasses, make-up; (13)], or indirectly, via other behaviors that affect one’s facial appearance [e.g., facial expressions; (14, 15)]. The hypothesis behind the face–name matching effect is that facial appearance may change over time to eventually represent how we “should” look.

Participants accurately matched the adult targets and their true name in 30.40% (=1.47%) of the cases, which is significantly greater than chance (25%, t(116) = 3.68, <0.001, d = 0.34, 95% CI [0.02, 0.08]). By contrast, for the child targets, participants accurately matched their true name in 23.61% (SE = 1.35%) of the cases, which is not significantly different from chance level (25%, t(116) = −1.02, P = 0.308, d = −0.09, 95% CI [−0.04, 0.10]). Moreover, in a repeated t test analysis, we found that the probability of accurately matching the target’s name was significantly higher for adult targets (30.40%) than for child targets (23.61%, t(116) = 3.49, P = 0.001, d = 0.32, 95% CI [0.02, 0.10]; see Fig. 2).

 

[Violence]

 

[Sloth22]

The namepill strikes again

 

[K1ng N0th1ng]

Strange.

 

[Natey Nate]

ovER for Gaylordcels

 

[kay']

Im naming my kid gigachad9000

 

[Subhuman Trucel]

The namepill strikes again

 

[Suicidal Schizoid]

docile names make docile people e vice versa

 

[JucheApologist]

Im naming my kid gigachad9000

Mine will be named "good personality"

 

[kay']

Mine will be named "good personality"

Brutal truecel son pill

 

[Biowaste Removal]

I'm naming my son CvnnyRapist1488

 

[Da_Yunez]

I'm naming my son CvnnyRapist1488

 

[LUCK]

My child will be named hymenbreaker4000

 

[psyop]

Name your son Chad theory

 

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

Name your son Chad theory

 

[NearEnd]

Very interesting and strange