Re Daniel E, Hunter David W, Coetzee Vinet, Tiddeman Bernard P, Xiao Dengke, DeBruine Lisa M, Jones Benedict C, Perrett David I
School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom.
PLoS One. 2013 Dec 4;8(12):e80957. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080957. eCollection 2013.
Judgments of leadership ability from face images predict the outcomes of actual political elections and are correlated with leadership success in the corporate world. The specific facial cues that people use to judge leadership remain unclear, however. Physical height is also associated with political and organizational success, raising the possibility that facial cues of height contribute to leadership perceptions. Consequently, we assessed whether cues to height exist in the face and, if so, whether they are associated with perception of leadership ability. We found that facial cues to perceived height had a strong relationship with perceived leadership ability. Furthermore, when allowed to manually manipulate faces, participants increased facial cues associated with perceived height in order to maximize leadership perception. A morphometric analysis of face shape revealed that structural facial masculinity was not responsible for the relationship between perceived height and perceived leadership ability. Given the prominence of facial appearance in making social judgments, facial cues to perceived height may have a significant influence on leadership selection.
从面部图像判断领导能力能够预测实际政治选举的结果，并且与企业界的领导成就相关。然而，人们用于判断领导力的具体面部线索仍不明确。身高也与政治和组织成就相关，这增加了身高的面部线索有助于形成领导力认知的可能性。因此，我们评估了面部是否存在身高线索，如果存在，这些线索是否与领导能力认知相关。我们发现，感知到的身高的面部线索与感知到的领导能力密切相关。此外，当允许参与者手动调整面部时，他们会增加与感知到的身高相关的面部线索，以最大化领导力认知。对面部形状的形态测量分析表明，面部结构上的男性化特征并不是感知到的身高与感知到的领导能力之间关系的原因。鉴于面部外观在社会判断中的突出作用，感知到的身高的面部线索可能会对领导力选拔产生重大影响。
