Does your partner look like you? My husband and I are similar in coloring and height, but no one has ever mistaken us for blood relations. ____ Reflection connection: Finding your face mate By Georgia Garvey I RedEye Ever look into a mirror and say, "Hey there, good-looking. Come here often?" Some online dating services are banking on just that--an affection for your reflection--and matching clients based on similar facial features before lining them up on the other stuff (likes, dislikes, level of distaste for Coldplay). The sites use facial recognition software to match features and then pair couples who have the most in common. Among them are the New York-based findyourfacemate.com, which launched this year and claims to pair daters based on their faces, and an offering from Coca-Cola, which recently announced a face-matching app on Facebook. Some dating experts said the new focus puts too high a priority on looks and not enough on personality. "It makes no sense at all. ... How self-conceited do you have to be?" said Vilius Gavrilenka, an event director for Chicago-based Date & Dash, who did say he can see how some would want to date someone of a similar level of attractiveness. But, he added, "There are so many other variables in a relationship that are more important." The idea behind the sites is based on studies like one published in June 2010 by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that examined people's sexual attraction for others who resembled them. In that study, people said those who looked like them or their parents were more attractive. R. Chris Fraley, who authored the U. of I. study, said he can see implications for dating. "If you were to set people up on the basis of similarity in their facial features, those people would find one another as more attractive than they would if they were paired in a less systematic fashion," Fraley said in an email, but added that "simply finding someone attractive doesn't guarantee that the relationship will work well in the long-term." Others said the computer-based scheme takes some of the mystery out of dating. "It sounds so scary," said Jim Sullivan, a New York-based dating coach. "It's an abomination of the whole dating process." But many acknowledge there's no harm to the approach. Ultimately, any excuse to chat someone up can be a good ice-breaker. "It's actually both goofy and it makes sense," said Kevin Chmura, a River North dating coach. He said that regardless of whether there's "legitimate" psychology behind the process, just having a seemingly scientific rationale for setting two people up "can give them that kind of [dating] confidence." Read the article: http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/redeye-reflection-connection-finding-your-face-mate-20110605,0,6484535.photogallery

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Worth it or not: A shopping Guide SmartMoney.com - We've all been there, standing in the aisle of a store, spending way too much time weighing the small differences between two similar products. Will the more expensive umbrella really perform better? When it comes to a laptop bag, is $120 too much, too little, or just right? Here's some help. Each month, SmartMoney Magazine looks at sets of two similar consumer products, and assesses the better buy. This year, we looked at a wide variety of goods, including blenders, deep fryers and Digital SLR cameras. To aid in your holiday shopping, here are seven suggestions: http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/family-money/worth-it-or-not-a-shopping-guide/