Looking like a leader-facial shape predicts perceived height and leadership ability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Re, Daniel E ^a   Hunter, David W ^a   Coetzee, Vinet ^b   Tiddeman, Bernard P ^c   Xiao, Dengke ^a   DeBruine, Lisa M ^d   Jones, Benedict C ^d   Perrett, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY HEIGHT; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MASCULINITY; MATURITY; NORMAL HUMAN;

CUES; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MASCULINITY; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84891898321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080957     Document Type: Article

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