The Facial Displays of Leaders

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.

 

• honest signals
• facial displays
• leadership theory
• evolutionary psychology
• social cognitive neuroscience
• facial morphology
• Broadcasting Strategy
• American Presidential Debate
• Primate Behaviours
• Status cue theory
• The Bill Clinton effect
• gender and leadership
• Perception of facial cues
• leader-follower relationship
• sociobiology
• facial expressions of affect

• Aston University, Birmingham, UK

  Carl Senior

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.