Some Mormons insist they can spot other Mormons; there's just something different about them they have a hard time putting into words. Nicholas Rule has done work showing that even non-Mormons can identify LDS from photographs at higher than chance rates:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0014241# …
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I've always contented that Mormon actors continue to have the Mormon look even after they abandon the religion and start drinking Mountain Dew. If you grew up with Family Home Evening the Mormon glow is written on your face like a gang tattoo forever.pic.twitter.com/FmfDBGMIeT
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But even more than the glow I think the distinguishing thing about Mormons is that they're in certain ways more masculine, with lots of stubble, thick eye brows, muscular cheeks and a tendency to go bald earlier in life. The most Mormon of Mormon of them all is Cael Sanderson:pic.twitter.com/PBgHvELxja
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Sometimes Mormons guess wrong and that's interesting, too. I've heard it said that part of the reason John Stockton was so popular in Utah was that he looked Mormon even though he was a Catholic. And he does, I think: the glow, the ever present stubble, the thick eyebrows:pic.twitter.com/tiYHgdHvxB
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Speaking of NBA players, the 80's Celtics had a backup forward from BYU named Fred Roberts who was also what I'd label "Super-Mormon" in appearancepic.twitter.com/a9HBvjaLqr
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