Did People Used To Look Older?

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Carl Sagan High School yearbook: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85590.041/?sp=2&r=-0.241,0,1.481,1.244,0

2001 Tiger Beat: https://allisontanenhaus.com/tiger-beat

Slade on Fabulous: https://i.pinimg.com/474x/23/b3/49/23b34988cc3958fb59cf66f0a15f9850.jpg

Elizabeth Taylor at 17: https://www.vintag.es/2018/04/elizabeth-taylor-by-philippe-halsman-1948.html

70s high school students: https://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675046349_students-and-navy_high-school-students_waste-of-money_interested-to-join

Brandon McCarthy tweet: https://twitter.com/bmccarthy32/status/1210350854571585537?lang=en

80s footballers: https://twitter.com/80sAging

80s high school IG: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZcKEeJhUSy/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=4589a200-7096-44e8-b5e5-0324e5da78c9

Sunscreen commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krGctNSuSMI

Historical orthodontics: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_orthodontics

Is 60 the new 50? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5897168/

Dua Lipa’s dad: https://twitter.com/lgbtdlipa/status/1377740115020283907

Face changes in magazines:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Changes-in-esthetic-standards-since-1940.-Berneburg-Dietz/d9f38e081f1dce3bde1dc758cf3e808a03cf7a73
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9714286/#:~:text=The%20results%20showed%20that%20%281,lip%20curl%2C%20and%20vermilion%20display
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10337246/

Norm 34 comparison tweet: https://twitter.com/Y2K_mindset/status/1412131747475509250

Norm edits: https://twitter.com/ziibiing/status/1412762456254992393

Golden Girls with modern style: https://www.tiktok.com/@sugacane22/video/7050305381406575919

Dale Irby: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2013/06/30/richardson-teacher-s-retirement-ends-one-last-echo-of-disco-fashion/

Time traveling hipster:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/time-traveling-hipster/
https://www.communitystories.ca/v1/pm_v2.php?id=record_detail&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000470&rd=117666#
https://timetravelnexus.com/time-travel-nexus-investigates-the-time-travelling-hipster/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_b83_RpJ0

Face-name matching effect:

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspa0000076.pdf

Bouba/kiki effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

Multiracial faces: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19065862/

Social bouba/kiki effect:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28597194/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03194119

Dori Gray image: https://society6.com/product/dorian-gray-revisited_stretched-canvas

How old is old? https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jgs.17379

What age would you like to be?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00067/full
https://theconversation.com/at-what-age-are-people-usually-happiest-new-research-offers-surprising-clues-156906

Black & white dreams:

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/DreamB&W.pdf
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.893.2832&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Mind Field episode about mind reading and recording dreams: https://youtu.be/AgbeGFYluEA

Mr. Stevens’ wardrobe: https://designerbrand.co/products/mcdonals-food?_pos=1&_sid=ae2ea94b3&_ss=r

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