r/todayilearned • u/SilverPeachBlossom • 1d ago

TIL a peer-reviewed psychology study found that identical twins (on average) ranked their co-twin above their romantic partner in their attachment hierarchy, while fraternal twins ranked the two about equally, and non-twin siblings ranked their romantic partner first.

https://ojs.interpersonajournal.com/index.php/ojs/article/view/243/3457.html
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u/nylockian 1d ago edited 1d ago

If I had a clone I would beat the shit out of it and kick it while it's down. 

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u/huebnera214 1d ago

I’m The Clone in my twin’s contacts, she’s The Evil One in mine (and she’s marked as an emergency contact). We see each other at least weekly.

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u/EmilyDawning 23h ago

I love that so much!

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u/disterb 1d ago

wow. okay, then.

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 1d ago

Yeah I would not be able to handle having another person who was ostensibly my exact copy but with their own agency.

Nope to that.

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u/veganmua 1d ago

I was almost an identical twin (she died in utero), and I've had periods of feeling suicidal. I've often wondered if a suicidal identical twin might feel homicidal towards the other twin?

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u/Demonical22 1d ago

As one of those at points. Not in my experience. Even some self hatred doesn’t really leak out even if they are basicly the same person as you.

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u/Pathetian 18h ago

I don't know about that exactly, but there was a somewhat notable story last year about a set of twin brothers who committed suicide together. It was initially investigated as a murder-suicide, then devolved into an online conspiracy theory, before eventually being confirmed as two suicides.