The many (distinctive) faces of leadership: Inferring leadership domain from facial appearance
By Christopher Y. Olivola, Dawn L. Eubanks, Jeffrey B. Lovelace. 2014
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Previous research has shown that people form impressions of potential leaders from their faces and that certain facial features predict success in reaching prestigious leadership positions. However, much less is known about the accuracy or meta-accuracy of face-based leadership inferences. Here we examine a simple, but important, question: Can leadership domain be inferred from faces? We find that human judges can identify business, military, and sports leaders (but not political leaders) from their faces with above-chance accuracy. However, people are surprisingly bad at evaluating their own performance on this judgment task: We find no relationship between how well judges think they performed and their actual accuracy levels. In a follow-up study, we identify several basic dimensions of evaluation that correlate with face-based judgments of leadership domain, as well as those that predict actual leadership domain. We discuss the implications of our results for leadership perception and selection.
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- Social attributions from faces: determinants, consequences, accuracy, and functional significance. (2015, background): “In contrast, Democrat voters do not seem to be influenced (in either direction) by these political facial stereotypes (despite still being influenced by other face-based trait inferences; see Olivola et al. 2012).”
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