Face and fortune: Inferences of personality from Managing Partners' faces predict their law firms' financial success

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 690-696

  Rule, Nicholas O ^a   Ambady, Nalini ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Face perception; Leadership; Nonverbal behavior; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960454881     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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