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The Facial Appearance of CEOs: Faces Signal Selection but Not Performance
Research overwhelmingly shows that facial appearance predicts leader selection. However, the evidence on the relevance of faces for actual leader ability and consequently performance is inconclusive. By using a state-of-the-art, objective measure for face recognition, we test the predictive value of...
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2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4963019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27462986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159950 |
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author | Stoker, Janka I. Garretsen, Harry Spreeuwers, Luuk J. |
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description | Research overwhelmingly shows that facial appearance predicts leader selection. However, the evidence on the relevance of faces for actual leader ability and consequently performance is inconclusive. By using a state-of-the-art, objective measure for face recognition, we test the predictive value of CEOs’ faces for firm performance in a large sample of faces. We first compare the faces of Fortune500 CEOs with those of US citizens and professors. We find clear confirmation that CEOs do look different when compared to citizens or professors, replicating the finding that faces matter for selection. More importantly, we also find that faces of CEOs of top performing firms do not differ from other CEOs. Based on our advanced face recognition method, our results suggest that facial appearance matters for leader selection but that it does not do so for leader performance. |
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spelling | pubmed-49630192016-08-08 The Facial Appearance of CEOs: Faces Signal Selection but Not Performance Stoker, Janka I. Garretsen, Harry Spreeuwers, Luuk J. PLoS One Research Article Research overwhelmingly shows that facial appearance predicts leader selection. However, the evidence on the relevance of faces for actual leader ability and consequently performance is inconclusive. By using a state-of-the-art, objective measure for face recognition, we test the predictive value of CEOs’ faces for firm performance in a large sample of faces. We first compare the faces of Fortune500 CEOs with those of US citizens and professors. We find clear confirmation that CEOs do look different when compared to citizens or professors, replicating the finding that faces matter for selection. More importantly, we also find that faces of CEOs of top performing firms do not differ from other CEOs. Based on our advanced face recognition method, our results suggest that facial appearance matters for leader selection but that it does not do so for leader performance. Public Library of Science 2016-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4963019/ /pubmed/27462986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159950 Text en © 2016 Stoker et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Stoker, Janka I. Garretsen, Harry Spreeuwers, Luuk J. The Facial Appearance of CEOs: Faces Signal Selection but Not Performance |
title | The Facial Appearance of CEOs: Faces Signal Selection but Not Performance |
title_full | The Facial Appearance of CEOs: Faces Signal Selection but Not Performance |
title_fullStr | The Facial Appearance of CEOs: Faces Signal Selection but Not Performance |
title_full_unstemmed | The Facial Appearance of CEOs: Faces Signal Selection but Not Performance |
title_short | The Facial Appearance of CEOs: Faces Signal Selection but Not Performance |
title_sort | facial appearance of ceos: faces signal selection but not performance |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4963019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27462986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159950 |
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