Perceptual Similarity: Justin Bieber and Vladimir Putin (IMAGE)

New York University

Perceptual Similarity: Justin Bieber and Vladimir Putin

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Knowledge of a person’s personality can warp the perception of a face’s identity and bias it toward alternate identities that are ostensibly unrelated. For example, if Vladimir Putin and Justin Bieber (above) have more similar personalities in your mind, then they visually appear more similar to you as well--as shown in the image.

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Image courtesy of NYU’s Jonathan Freeman

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