With his
balding head, bright eyes, and
baby cheeks, Brewer, a neurologist at the University of California at San Diego,
looks like a large and curious toddler.
In one seminal (no pun intended) study, raters were more likely to correctly match pictures of infants with biological fathers than biological mothers (i.e.,
babies looked more like dad than mom); 4 however, this finding has not been replicated by subsequent research.5, 6 Interestingly, dads who think their kids
look like them tend to have more positive relationships with those children.7 It makes sense that mothers (and mothers» relatives) are more likely to say that a
baby looks like the father, possibly as a form of reassuring the father of his paternity.8 Although, to be fair, there is just something about a
bald chubby
baby that
looks more «dad - like» than «mom - like.»