It's called the mere-exposure effect. The more frequently you're exposed to something the more you "like" it. It works for faces and it's why we like songs more when we've heard them more often.
It's also one reason why we think we look better in the mirror than in photographs. Others see us as we are in photos and we are used to seeing ourselves as we are in the mirror. It's why people sometimes don't like their photographs. Interestingly a study showed that people considered photographs of friends to be more attractive than mirror images of them because they are more used to seeing them the right way round.
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It's called the mere-exposure effect. The more frequently you're exposed to something the more you "like" it. It works for faces and it's why we like songs more when we've heard them more often.
It's also one reason why we think we look better in the mirror than in photographs. Others see us as we are in photos and we are used to seeing ourselves as we are in the mirror. It's why people sometimes don't like their photographs. Interestingly a study showed that people considered photographs of friends to be more attractive than mirror images of them because they are more used to seeing them the right way round.
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