Predicting Firm Success From the Facial Appearance of Chief Executive Officers of Non-Profit Organizations.

She’s Got the Look: Inferences from Female Chief Executive Officers’ Faces Predict their Success

Inferences from faces can predict success. This may be particularly important for women, who are often evaluated by their appearance. Here 170 northeastern U.S. undergraduates judged personality traits or leadership ability from the faces of all 20 U.S. Fortune 1,000: 2006 female chief executive officers (CEOs) and we compared these ratings to the same trait ratings made for male CEOs in a prev...

Facial width-to-height ratio differs by social rank across organizations, countries, and value systems

Facial Width-to-Height Ratio (fWHR) has been linked with dominant and aggressive behavior in human males. We show here that on portrait photographs published online, chief executive officers (CEOs) of companies listed in the Dow Jones stock market index and the Deutscher Aktienindex have a higher-than-normal fWHR, which also correlates positively with their company's donations to charitable cau...

The face of success: inferences from chief executive officers' appearance predict company profits.

First impressions are powerful and rich sources of information about other people, and studies have demonstrated that they predict performance in numerous domains, such as teaching (Ambady & Rosenthal, 1993) and electoral success (Todorov, Mandisodza, Goren, & Hall, 2005). Much of this work, however, has employed outcome variables that are subjective. For example, in the study of teacher effect...

Health Management Information Systems Executives: Roles and Responsibilities of Chief Executive Officers and Chief Information Officers in Healthcare Services Organizations

The influence of economic context on the relationship between chief executive officer facial appearance and company profits

Editor: Panu Poutvaara Executive Officers (CEOs) predicted their companies' financial performance prior to the Inferences of leadership ability and personality from faces have been associated with leaders' efficacy across multiple domains. One influential factor that has only been scarcely explored, however, is the context in which leadership occurs. The present studies examined the effect of t...