Facial resemblance of Japanese children to their parents

Oda, Ryohei; Matsumoto‐Oda, Akiko; Kurashima, Osamu

doi:10.1007/s10164-002-0057-8

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“…Apart from a Japanese study (reported by Oda, Matsumoto-Oda, & Kurashima, 2002, existing work in this area has been based entirely on Caucasian populations. Caucasians differ among themselves in eye and hair color, and these features serve as salient identification cues for actual parent-child resemblance, especially for older children.…”

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Patrilocal Residence and Father–Child Resemblance Beliefs in Relation to Paternal Investment

Chang

Lee

et al. 2010

Parenting

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Objective. The present study investigated the moderating effect of patrilocality-whether a child's mother lives with paternal grandparents-on the relation between father-child resemblance belief and paternal investment. Design and Results. On the basis of 341 children and their parents from rural China, belief in paternal resemblance was found to be related to higher paternal warmth toward the child, higher paternal marital satisfaction, and stronger relations of perceived paternal autonomy granting and paternal psychological control to child life satisfaction. The differences between high and low paternal resemblance beliefs were attenuated by patrilocality. Conclusions. These findings demonstrate the compensatory roles of paternal resemblance belief (a behavioral adaptation) and patrilocal residence (a cultural adaptation) in serving the same function of calming paternity uncertainty and procuring paternal investment to children.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Patrilocal Residence and Father–Child Resemblance Beliefs in Relation to Paternal Investment

Chang

Lee

et al. 2010

Parenting

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“…Blending 50% of the shape and color of a face into another face is unlikely to be equivalent to the resemblance between people with genetic relatedness of 0.5. People judge genetic relatives as more facially similar than unrelated pairs (Brédart & French, 1999;Bressan & Grassi, 2004;Bressan & Martello, 2002;Christenfeld & Hill, 1995;Maloney & Dal Martello, 2006;McLain et al, 2000;Nesse et al, 1990;Oda et al, 2002;Porter et al, 1984), but the exact cues they use to do this are unknown.…”

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Social Perception of Facial Resemblance in Humans

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Two lines of reasoning predict that highly social species will have mechanisms to influence behavior toward individuals depending on their degree of relatedness. First, inclusive fitness theory leads to the prediction that organisms will preferentially help closely related kin over more distantly related individuals. Second, evaluation of the relative costs and potential benefits of inbreeding suggests that the degree of kinship should also be considered when choosing a mate. In order to behaviorally discriminate between individuals with different levels of relatedness, organisms must be able to discriminate cues of kinship. Facial resemblance is one such potential cue in humans. Computer-graphic manipulation of face images has made it possible to experimentally test hypotheses about human kin recognition by facial phenotype matching. We review recent experimental evidence that humans respond to facial resemblance in ways consistent with inclusive fitness theory and considerations of the costs of inbreeding, namely by increasing prosocial behavior and positive attributions toward self-resembling images and selectively tempering attributions of attractiveness to other-sex faces in the context of a sexual relationship.

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“…They showed the need of "early" visual input to develop normal face recognitions later. Children resemble their parents (Nesse et al 1990;Bredart and French 1999;McLain et al 2000;Oda et al 2002;Bressan and Grassi 2004), sometimes even in odd ways: they seem first to resemble more their fathers (see also Daly and Wilson 1982;Regalski and Gaulin 1993). Facial child-parent resemblance mechanisms seem to exist even among chimpanzees (Parr and de Waal 1999).…”

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Self seeks like: many humans choose their dog pets following rules used for assortative mating

Payne

Jaffé

2004

J Ethol

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Theoretical and experimental studies suggest that mating and pair formation are not likely to be random. Assortative mating, characterized as "self seeking like", seems to be widely practiced in nature. Experimental evidence for it is strong among humans seeking a mate. Assortative mating increases the probability of finding a genetically similar mate, without fomenting inbreeding, achieving assortative mating without hindering the working of other mate-selection strategies that aim to maximize the search for "good genes", optimizing the working of sex in evolutionary terms. Self seeking like seems to be a behavioural inborn trait among humans, and here we present evidence that the same behavioural mechanism seems to be at work when humans choose a pet. We show that in a significant proportion of human-pet pairs, sampled in pet beauty contests, the partners show much higher facial resemblances than can be expected by random pair formation.

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Facial resemblance of Japanese children to their parents

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

Patrilocal Residence and Father–Child Resemblance Beliefs in Relation to Paternal Investment

Patrilocal Residence and Father–Child Resemblance Beliefs in Relation to Paternal Investment

Social Perception of Facial Resemblance in Humans

Self seeks like: many humans choose their dog pets following rules used for assortative mating

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