Ferguson, H. S., Owen, A., Hahn, A. C., Torrance, J. , Debruine, L. M. and Jones, B. C. (2019) Context-specific effects of facial dominance and trustworthiness on hypothetical leadership decisions. PLoS ONE, 14(7), e0214261. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214261) (PMID:31356614)
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Abstract
Social judgments of faces predict important social outcomes, including leadership decisions. Previous work suggests that facial cues associated with perceptions of dominance and trustworthiness have context-specific effects on leadership decisions. Facial cues linked to perceived dominance have been found to be preferred in leaders for hypothetical wartime contexts and facial cues linked to perceived trustworthiness have been found to be preferred in leaders for hypothetical peacetime contexts. Here we sought to replicate these effects using images of women’s faces, as previous studies have primarily focused on perceptions of leadership abilities from male faces, with only a handful of these including female faces. Consistent with previous work, a linear mixed effects model demonstrated that more trustworthy-looking faces were preferred in leaders during times of peace and more dominant-looking faces were preferred in leaders during times of war. These results provide converging evidence for context-specific effects of facial cues on hypothetical leadership judgments.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Torrance, Dr Jaimie and DeBruine, Professor Lisa and Jones, Professor Benedict |
Creator Roles: | Debruine, L.Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review and editing Jones, B.Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing Torrance, J.Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review and editing |
Authors: | Ferguson, H. S., Owen, A., Hahn, A. C., Torrance, J., Debruine, L. M., and Jones, B. C. |
College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Psychology & Neuroscience |
Journal Name: | PLoS ONE |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
ISSN (Online): | 1932-6203 |
Published Online: | 29 July 2019 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2019 Ferguson et al. |
First Published: | First published in PLoS ONE 14(7):e0214261 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons license |
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