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The many (distinctive) faces of leadership : inferring leadership domain from facial appearance

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Olivola, Christopher Yves, Eubanks, Dawn L. and Lovelace, Jeffrey B. (2014) The many (distinctive) faces of leadership : inferring leadership domain from facial appearance. The Leadership Quarterly, 25 (5). pp. 817-834. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.06.002

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Leadership, Social perception, Nonverbal communication, Judgment
Journal or Publication Title: The Leadership Quarterly
Publisher: Pergamon
ISSN: 1048-9843
Official Date: October 2014
Dates:
DateEvent
October 2014Published
11 July 2014Available
6 June 2014Accepted
1 April 2013Submitted
Volume: 25
Number: 5
Page Range: pp. 817-834
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.06.002
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: British Academy (BA), Royal Society (Great Britain), University of Warwick

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