The height leadership advantage in men and women: Testing evolutionary psychology predictions about the perceptions of tall leaders

By Nancy M. Blaker, Irene Rompa, Inge H. Dessing, Anne F. Vriend, C. Herschberg, M. van Vugt. 2013

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Charisma as signal: An evolutionary perspective on charismatic leadership (2017, background): “…index because they are expected to have greater success in physical combat, in punishing defectors, and attracting the attention of followers – these are all important leader characteristics in ancestral environments (see Blaker et al., 2013; Von Rueden & van Vugt, 2016 for extensive reviews).”
The evolutionary psychology of leadership (2014, background): “A recent experimental study suggests that the height-leadership bias applies more strongly to male candidates than to female candidates (Blaker et al., 2013).”
What If Psychology Took Intersectionality Seriously? Changing How Psychologists Think About Participants (2019, background): “, Blaker et al., 2013); however, for Black men, being tall results in negative attention from the police and perceptions that one is especially threatening (Hester & Gray, 2018). Employing intersectional thinking also reveals that people may experience similar, even identical, outcomes of disadvanta”