Does Someone Else Have Your Face? Doppelgängers Explained!

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They say everyone has a doppelgänger, but is that really true? This week we meet a young woman who found her own look-alike, and figure out how we actually recognize faces.

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Cambridge Memory Test

Thorn Child Finder Challenge

Acknowledgements:
Dr. Teghan Lucas, University of New South Wales
Dr. Martin Eimer, Cambridge University
Dr. Michael Sheehan, Cornell University
Amanda Green (her real Instagram is @4mandagreen)
Ruben van der Dussen/Thorn

Huckenbeck (2013). Identification of the Living. University Clinic Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany. Elsevier Ltd.

Johnson et al. (1991) Newborns’ preferential tracking of face-like stimuli and its subsequent decline. Cognition. 40(1-2):1-19.

Lucas et al. (2016). Comparing the face to the body, which is better for identification? International Journal of Legal Medicine. 130(2):533-40 DOI 10.1007/s00414-015-1158-6

Lucas et al. (2015). Are human faces unique? A metric approach to finding single individuals without duplicates in large samples. Forensic Science International 257 514.e1–514.e6

Robertson et al. (2016). Unfamiliar face recognition : Security, surveillance and smartphones. The Journal of the Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center. (14-21).

Thomas (2013). Forensic Anthropology of the Living. Human Skeleton In Forensic Medicine (408-435).

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[besmart]

If someone else has your face you should probably ask for it back. I'm on Twitter and Instagram at @DrJoeHanson and @okaytobesmart

Thanks for watching, smart people!

[ctsilver_]

I’ve actually met my doppelgänger, he was walking by me in a hotel and we saw each other and pulled a double take.

[vxdraws]

EVERYONE has a doppelganger. Just not all doppelgangers are alive at the same time.

[BANANADOGE]

Im a identical twin and I can say that our faces is very identical by the fact that we can unlock each others Face ID in our phone 😂

[TheRealestBubby]

This guy: "did you even notice we swapped their photos?"

Me who just didnt remember their names: "wow."

[ben]

shout out to the unfortunate people who have my face... i'm so sorry y'all

[daliacapellan]

I hope the other "me" is having a way better love life than I am.

[rubygregory]

I once ran across a picture of a girl online that looked just like me. The girl had a large tattoo on her neck though so I played a joke on my mom and sent her the pic and said “look at my new tattoo mom!” My mom was angry and totally thought it was me!! 🤣

[barone]

If a mom had 5 twins and they found their dopplegangers, theoretically, they could literally play a game of basketball (5x5) with only their faces on court

[TravelwithLea]

A few years ago, we discovered my boyfriend (at the time) had a doppelgänger living in the same city. What’s even weirder is that his dopplegangers girlfriend looked pretty similar to me too! Bumping into them was a funny circumstance

[stocktonnash]

“Did you notice we swapped their faces?” 6:20
No you didn’t, you swapped their names.

[pumpkincheesecake]

I've seen my doppelganger! I saw them when I was younger, in a Halloween makeup book.

My mum sat me down all serious and asked me if anyone had taken pictures of me. They even had the same damn hairstyle as me. Legit completely identical.

I still have the book, and it's bloody creepy.

The other child wasn't named, so I have no idea who this doppelganger actually is, or if we still look the same.

[nonow]

I worked for my Doppelganger for awhile, everyone mixed us up, even his wife and mother...his daughter is the only one who never did. The similarities aren't just that, both born in March, raised on boats, fishing and surfing enthusiasts...those are predictable but the weirdest thing we share is a a genuine and lingering childhood fear of ET...

[JoaoPessoa]

"Does Someone Else Have Your Face?" I'm an identical twin, the person with my face lives in my house.

[suha.]

“Hey! Give me back my face!”
Edit: I don’t think Meredith and Amanda look alike 🤨

[mysticm]

I didn't think they looked the same. They looked kinda similar but there was clear differences. I immediately noticed when their pictures were swapped. Couldn't pick out the matching kid though.

[birb]

God have mercy on the person who has my face

[strangelola]

I don't have the slightest idea of who Amanda and Meredith are but I do know they don't look alike at all xD.

[valiroime]

Back in the ‘80s, I kept getting mistaken for someone else. When I finally met the person, there really wasn’t much of a resemblance.

[TheDGomezzi]

Her husband said they didn’t look alike so he wouldn’t get in trouble