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The effects of facial adiposity on attractiveness and perceived leadership ability

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Date
2014
Author
Re, Daniel Edward
Perrett, David Ian
Keywords
Body mass index
Leadership perception
Dominance
Social judgements
BF Psychology
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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.
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Re , D E & Perrett , D I 2014 , ' The effects of facial adiposity on attractiveness and perceived leadership ability ' , The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , vol. 67 , no. 4 , pp. 676-686 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.825635
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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.825635
ISSN
1747-0218
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2013 The Experimental Psychology Society. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology on 25/08/2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17470218.2013.825635
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6632

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