Men With Wide Faces: Frauds or Financial Wizards?

Forbes:

I’m not sure what to think about this new research, so I’ll just pass it on . . .

Men with wider faces not only are perceived as untrustworthy, they may deserve the reputation, according to an article in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee discovered that broad-faced men appear more likely to deceive their counterparts in negotiations and are more willing to cheat in order to increase their financial gain.

In one study, experimenters measured the facial width-to-height ratio of 192 Masters of Business Administration students, 115 of whom were men. Next, they randomly assigned the volunteers to play either buyers or sellers role in negotiations over emails as part of a classroom exercise. Sellers were instructed not to sell a property unless they were certain it would not be used commercially, while buyers were instructed that they would certainly develop the property commercially if they bought it.

The scientists found men with broader faces were approximately three times as likely to lie in the negotiation than narrower-faced men. (There was no such correlation found with women.)

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