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Facial features and unethical behavior – Doped athletes show higher facial width-to-height ratios than non-doping sanctioned athletes
Past research has emphasized the role of facial structures in predicting social behavior. In particular the facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) was found to be a reliable predictor for antisocial and unethical behavior. The current study was aimed at examining this association in the field of sports...
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Public Library of Science
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6821090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31665155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224472 |
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author | Krenn, Bjoern Buehler, Callum |
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description | Past research has emphasized the role of facial structures in predicting social behavior. In particular the facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) was found to be a reliable predictor for antisocial and unethical behavior. The current study was aimed at examining this association in the field of sports: FWHRs of 146 doping sanctioned athletes in athletics (37 male/38 female) and weightlifting (44 male/27 female) were compared to the fWHRs of randomly chosen non-doping sanctioned athletes of the Top Ten at the World Championship 2017 and Olympic Games 2016 in both sports (146 athletes). The results showed that doping sanctioned athletes due to the use of anabolic steroids had larger fWHRs than non-doping sanctioned athletes. However, doping sanctioned athletes due to other doping rule violations than the use of anabolic steroids, did not show this effect. The study provides empirical evidence for the relation between fWHR and unethical behavior in a real-world setting and contributes to the discussion about fWHR’s biological origin, emphasizing the role of anabolic steroids. A mutual interaction between fWHR and doping behavior is discussed, at which a larger fWHR might signify a higher tendency to behave unethically, whereas the consequential intake of anabolic steroids might also shape individuals’ faces. |
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spelling | pubmed-68210902019-11-08 Facial features and unethical behavior – Doped athletes show higher facial width-to-height ratios than non-doping sanctioned athletes Krenn, Bjoern Buehler, Callum PLoS One Research Article Past research has emphasized the role of facial structures in predicting social behavior. In particular the facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) was found to be a reliable predictor for antisocial and unethical behavior. The current study was aimed at examining this association in the field of sports: FWHRs of 146 doping sanctioned athletes in athletics (37 male/38 female) and weightlifting (44 male/27 female) were compared to the fWHRs of randomly chosen non-doping sanctioned athletes of the Top Ten at the World Championship 2017 and Olympic Games 2016 in both sports (146 athletes). The results showed that doping sanctioned athletes due to the use of anabolic steroids had larger fWHRs than non-doping sanctioned athletes. However, doping sanctioned athletes due to other doping rule violations than the use of anabolic steroids, did not show this effect. The study provides empirical evidence for the relation between fWHR and unethical behavior in a real-world setting and contributes to the discussion about fWHR’s biological origin, emphasizing the role of anabolic steroids. A mutual interaction between fWHR and doping behavior is discussed, at which a larger fWHR might signify a higher tendency to behave unethically, whereas the consequential intake of anabolic steroids might also shape individuals’ faces. Public Library of Science 2019-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6821090/ /pubmed/31665155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224472 Text en © 2019 Krenn, Buehler 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 Krenn, Bjoern Buehler, Callum Facial features and unethical behavior – Doped athletes show higher facial width-to-height ratios than non-doping sanctioned athletes |
title | Facial features and unethical behavior – Doped athletes show higher facial width-to-height ratios than non-doping sanctioned athletes |
title_full | Facial features and unethical behavior – Doped athletes show higher facial width-to-height ratios than non-doping sanctioned athletes |
title_fullStr | Facial features and unethical behavior – Doped athletes show higher facial width-to-height ratios than non-doping sanctioned athletes |
title_full_unstemmed | Facial features and unethical behavior – Doped athletes show higher facial width-to-height ratios than non-doping sanctioned athletes |
title_short | Facial features and unethical behavior – Doped athletes show higher facial width-to-height ratios than non-doping sanctioned athletes |
title_sort | facial features and unethical behavior – doped athletes show higher facial width-to-height ratios than non-doping sanctioned athletes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6821090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31665155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224472 |
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