right side face bias
According to the pop science magazine, Psychology Today, people notice the right side of your face the most, so much so, that a picture of the right side of your face put together with its mirror image looks more like you than 2 left halves put together. This is because people/primates look first at the top left of their visual field.
However, when we see ourselves, it's almost always in a reflection. Do we check ourselves out mostly on the left side? If so, I would expect the reverse to be true when judging ourselves as opposed to others, and that 2 left halves put together would look the most like ourselves. Unless there's some sort of examination bias when we check our own faces out.
My face is my face. Those 2 right halves or 2 left halves of the face games always freak me out. It was part of my favorite exhibit at the science museum as a kid. There was another station that would age your face and that I found very compelling, although the results left much to be desired. I'm sure face aging technology has advanced since the early nineties though.
Hey, will there be a website that lets you turn your face into an Avatar alien? Spread the eyes apart, do a bunch of color correcting, sharpen the ears, give you a sensing braid/penis hairdo? That would be rad.


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