Facial appearance and leader choice in different contexts: Evidence for task contingent selection based on implicit and learned face-behaviour/face-ability associations

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 865-874

  Little, Anthony C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faces; Facultative; Leadership; Voting; War peace

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919677716     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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