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You don’t look the way you think you do in pictures – and that scares us

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Step away from the selfie (Picture: Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

You might want to reconsider your latest profile picture, because there’s a good chance it looks nothing like you.

According to new research, a stranger who has only seen your face for a minute is far better at picking out a photo that actually looks like you than you are.

So while you may think your holiday selfie looks on point, chances are you’re deluding yourself about your appearance.

On a more serious level, this is actually pretty worrying. We use photo identification for financial transactions and crossing borders so being able to identify a photo that looks like you in real life is important.

The researchers asked 130 students to… Read the full story


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