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The Facial Displays of Leaders

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  1. Carl Senior

    1. Aston University, Birmingham, UK

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  • Discusses how facial displays affect perceptions of leadership ability

  • Attempts to identify ‘honest signals’ - physiological indicators that identify links to effective leadership that may have an adaptive value

  • Explores the means by which our biology interacts with our social behaviour

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Facial Displays of Leadership: A Systematic Review of the Literature

    • Carl Senior
    Pages 1-25

  3. Formidability and Alliance Politics in Humans and Nonhuman Species

    • Christopher D. Watkins
    Pages 27-49

  4. Facing Your Competition: Findings from the 2016 Presidential Election

    • Patrick A. Stewart, Elena Svetieva, Austin Eubanks, Jason M. Miller
    Pages 51-72

  5. In/Appropriate Aggression in Presidential Debate: How Trump’s Nonverbal Displays Intensified Verbal Norm Violations in 2016

    • Erik P. Bucy, Zijian Harrison Gong
    Pages 73-95

  6. The Evolutionary Psychology of Leadership Trait Perception

    • Kristen Knowles
    Pages 97-121

  7. Facial Displays of Dominance in Non-human Primates

    • Rachel M. Petersen, Constance Dubuc, James P. Higham
    Pages 123-143

  8. About Face! Facial Status Cues and Perceptions of Charismatic Leadership

    • Caroline F. Keating
    Pages 145-170

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 171-177
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This book provides a multifaceted analysis of how the human face drives many of our most important social behaviors. People perceive the identities, genders, and attractiveness of others from the many different faces they see every day. There has been great deal of research on the psychology, neuropsychology and neuroscience of how these perceptions are formed. However the facial displays of leadership, with their almost ubiquitous role in our social lives, remain largely unexplored. Carl Senior argues that perhaps now more than ever, it is crucial to understand how facial displays communicate leadership abilities. This book brings together perspectives from a range of international experts across a variety of fields including social psychology, organisational sciences and the study of primates, with the aim to further our understanding of this fundamental social force. Scholars and professionals, as well as anyone interested in learning more about how the face is used to drive our perception of leadership, will find this book of great interest.

 



Editors and Affiliations

  • Aston University, Birmingham, UK

    Carl Senior

About the editor

Carl Senior joined Aston University, UK in 2004 as Reader in Psychology after holding a visiting fellowship in Behavioural Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, USA. He is a Visiting Professor to the University of Gibraltar and was elected a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 2015.

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