Looking Like a Leader–Facial Shape Predicts Perceived Height and Leadership Ability
Judgments of leadership ability from face images predict the outcomes of actual political elections and are correlated with leadership success in the corporate world. The specific facial cues that people use to judge leadership remain unclear, however. Physical height is also associated with politic...
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pubmed-38519902013-12-09 Looking Like a Leader–Facial Shape Predicts Perceived Height and Leadership Ability Re, Daniel E. Hunter, David W. Coetzee, Vinet Tiddeman, Bernard P. Xiao, Dengke DeBruine, Lisa M. Jones, Benedict C. Perrett, David I. Research Article Judgments of leadership ability from face images predict the outcomes of actual political elections and are correlated with leadership success in the corporate world. The specific facial cues that people use to judge leadership remain unclear, however. Physical height is also associated with political and organizational success, raising the possibility that facial cues of height contribute to leadership perceptions. Consequently, we assessed whether cues to height exist in the face and, if so, whether they are associated with perception of leadership ability. We found that facial cues to perceived height had a strong relationship with perceived leadership ability. Furthermore, when allowed to manually manipulate faces, participants increased facial cues associated with perceived height in order to maximize leadership perception. A morphometric analysis of face shape revealed that structural facial masculinity was not responsible for the relationship between perceived height and perceived leadership ability. Given the prominence of facial appearance in making social judgments, facial cues to perceived height may have a significant influence on leadership selection. Public Library of Science 2013-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3851990/ /pubmed/24324651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080957 Text en © 2013 Re et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
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Re, Daniel E. Hunter, David W. Coetzee, Vinet Tiddeman, Bernard P. Xiao, Dengke DeBruine, Lisa M. Jones, Benedict C. Perrett, David I. Looking Like a Leader–Facial Shape Predicts Perceived Height and Leadership Ability |
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Re, Daniel E. Hunter, David W. Coetzee, Vinet Tiddeman, Bernard P. Xiao, Dengke DeBruine, Lisa M. Jones, Benedict C. Perrett, David I. |
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Looking Like a Leader–Facial Shape Predicts Perceived Height and Leadership Ability |
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Looking Like a Leader–Facial Shape Predicts Perceived Height and Leadership Ability |
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Looking Like a Leader–Facial Shape Predicts Perceived Height and Leadership Ability |
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looking like a leader–facial shape predicts perceived height and leadership ability |
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Judgments of leadership ability from face images predict the outcomes of actual political elections and are correlated with leadership success in the corporate world. The specific facial cues that people use to judge leadership remain unclear, however. Physical height is also associated with political and organizational success, raising the possibility that facial cues of height contribute to leadership perceptions. Consequently, we assessed whether cues to height exist in the face and, if so, whether they are associated with perception of leadership ability. We found that facial cues to perceived height had a strong relationship with perceived leadership ability. Furthermore, when allowed to manually manipulate faces, participants increased facial cues associated with perceived height in order to maximize leadership perception. A morphometric analysis of face shape revealed that structural facial masculinity was not responsible for the relationship between perceived height and perceived leadership ability. Given the prominence of facial appearance in making social judgments, facial cues to perceived height may have a significant influence on leadership selection. |
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