Results of the study were published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. Meanwhile, blood-related twins garner close scores, indicating that their genetics are mainly responsible for the likeness. The study aims to provide a form of scientific proof that twins have similar personalities mainly because of their genetic makeup, not because their physical resemblance cause people to treat them the same way.Īfter letting blood-related twins and the unrelated look-alikes from Brunelle’s project answer the same set of questionnaires regarding personality measures (stability, openness, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and self-esteem), the results showed that the unrelated look-alikes showed little similarity. His work has also caught the attention of the Columbian government who collaborated with him for their project to promote harmony entitled, “Let’s Choose to See What We Have In Common”.īecause of this particular project, Brunelle has also been involved in a study conducted by Nancy Segal, a psychologist and director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University. Would you please find my look-alike, so I feel less alone.”
The photographer remembers one woman from China in particular who wrote to him, “Dear Mr. Then, after numerous media exposures, his work became known to other people across the globe, many of whom have reached out to him, willing to find and pose with their stranger look-alike.
However, the featured “couples”, as Brunelle would call them, are totally unrelated to each other and come from 30 cities all over the world.īrunelle says he found his first few subjects through people he knew. With more than seven billion people living on planet Earth, they say somewhere in this world, there must be someone who looks just like you – a doppelganger, as some would call it.įascinated by human faces as his subject, Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle has brought together more than 250 “twin stranger” pairings as of date, to pose for his more than two-decade project: “I’m Not A Look-Alike”.Īt first glance, one would think that the portfolio’s theme is a family or sibling portrait. Image Credit: François Brunelle via Musee Magazine
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