Protective buttressing of the hominin face

DR Carrier, MH Morgan - Biological Reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
When humans fight hand‐to‐hand the face is usually the primary target and the bones that
suffer the highest rates of fracture are the parts of the skull that exhibit the greatest increase …

Two signals of social rank: Prestige and dominance are associated with distinct nonverbal displays.

Z Witkower, JL Tracy, JT Cheng… - Journal of Personality …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Converging evidence suggests that high rank is communicated through various nonverbal
behaviors (eg, expansiveness), but prior studies have not examined whether 2 distinct forms …

Does a competent leader make a good friend? Conflict, ideology and the psychologies of friendship and followership

L Laustsen, MB Petersen - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
Research demonstrates that the physical traits of leaders and political candidates influence
election outcomes and that subjects favor functionally different physical traits in leaders …

The human anger face evolved to enhance cues of strength

A Sell, L Cosmides, J Tooby - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
Animals typically deploy their morphology during conflict to enhance competitors'
assessments of their fighting ability (eg bared fangs, piloerection, dewlap inflation). Recent …

Face of a fighter: Bizygomatic width as a cue of formidability

S Zilioli, AN Sell, M Stirrat, J Jagore… - Aggressive …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Humans can accurately extract information about men's formidability from their faces;
however, the actual facial cues that inform these judgments have not been established …

Accuracy in facial trustworthiness impressions: Kernel of truth or modern physiognomy? A meta-analysis

YZ Foo, CAM Sutherland, NS Burton… - Personality and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Being able to identify trustworthy strangers is a critical social skill. However, whether such
impressions are accurate is debatable. Critically, the field currently lacks a quantitative …

A systematic review of the sport psychology mixed martial arts literature: replication and extension

S Cooper, M Lochbaum - European journal of investigation in health …, 2022 - mdpi.com
MMA is a global sport with a growing body of psychological literature. Our main objective
was to replicate and extend a past review concerning the sport psychology literature with …

Perceived trustworthiness is associated with position in a corporate hierarchy

L Linke, SA Saribay, K Kleisner - Personality and Individual Differences, 2016 - Elsevier
Faces provide cues about an individual's social, economic, and reproductive success. Here
we examined the relationship between perceived trustworthiness, dominance …

Focal length affects depicted shape and perception of facial images

V Třebický, J Fialová, K Kleisner, J Havlíček - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Static photographs are currently the most often employed stimuli in research on social
perception. The method of photograph acquisition might affect the depicted subject's facial …

In the face of dominance: Self-perceived and other-perceived dominance are positively associated with facial-width-to-height ratio in men

VR Mileva, ML Cowan, KD Cobey, KK Knowles… - Personality and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In recent research, facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) has garnered considerable attention
because it has been linked with different behavioural characteristics (eg, achievement drive …