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Do you look like your name?

A new study published by the American Psychological Association has found that the probability of people matching people to their names correctly is more likely to happen by chance, and this may be related to cultural patterns of names.

The researcher Yonat Zwebner, in cooperation with his colleagues, conducted a series of experiments on hundreds of French and Israeli participants.

An image of the participants in each experiment was displayed and asked to identify the name of the photo owner that corresponds to their face from a list of 4 to 5 names.

In each experiment, an image is displayed to participants where they are asked to identify the name of the photo owner that corresponds to a face within a list of five people.

And already the participants in the experiment were better at matching the face with the name by 40%. This is what researchers put in astonishment to put the hypothesis that this result may be the result of the cultural patterns associated with the names where they found that the effect is the result of a particular culture.

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During the experiment, the researchers observed that French students were better at matching the names of French people with their faces, and Israeli students were better at guessing Hebrew names and comparing them to the faces of Israeli people.

In another experiment, the researchers programmed a computer to match names with faces using a learning algorithm and more than 82,000 face images. They found that the computer was 60 to 75 percent more accurate in matching names with faces than random guessing, which was 55 percent accurate.

According to Zubner, this phenomenon of name and face may be due to the tendency of people to change their public appearance to suit the cultural standards and features associated with the name they carry.

"We are subject to social structure from the moment we are born, not just because of gender, race and social and economic status but through a simple decision taken by others who give us our name," he added.