The Effects of Facial Adiposity on Attractiveness and Perceived Leadership Ability. Issue 4 (April 2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Effects of Facial Adiposity on Attractiveness and Perceived Leadership Ability. Issue 4 (April 2014)
- Main Title:
- The Effects of Facial Adiposity on Attractiveness and Perceived Leadership Ability
- Authors:
- Re, Daniel E.
Perrett, David I. - Abstract:
- Facial attractiveness has a positive influence on electoral success both in experimental paradigms and in the real world. One parameter that influences facial attractiveness and social judgements is facial adiposity (a facial correlate to body mass index, BMI). Overweight people have high facial adiposity and are perceived to be less attractive and lower in leadership ability. Here, we used an interactive design in order to assess whether the most attractive level of facial adiposity is also perceived as most leader-like. We found that participants reduced facial adiposity more to maximize attractiveness than to maximize perceived leadership ability. These results indicate that facial appearance impacts leadership judgements beyond the effects of attractiveness. We suggest that the disparity between optimal facial adiposity in attractiveness and leadership judgements stems from social trends that have produced thin ideals for attractiveness, while leadership judgements are associated with perception of physical dominance.
- Is Part Of:
- Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. Volume 67:Issue 4(2014)
- Journal:
- Quarterly journal of experimental psychology
- Issue:
- Volume 67:Issue 4(2014)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 67, Issue 4 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 67
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0067-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 676
- Page End:
- 686
- Publication Date:
- 2014-04
- Subjects:
- Body mass index -- Leadership perception -- Dominance -- Social judgements
Psychology, Experimental -- Periodicals
Psychophysiology -- Periodicals
Psychology, Comparative -- Periodicals
150.72405 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/pqje20/current ↗
http://journals.sagepub.com/home/qjp ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/17470218.2013.825635 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1747-0218
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