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From: The Telegraph

Wide-faced CEO’s ‘better for their companies’

The Telegraph:

Those whose chief executives have fat heads perform better financially than those whose leaders have long faces, according to a study to be published in the journal Psychological Science.

Men wider faces tend to have higher testosterone levels, say researchers, making them more aggressive.

This could explain the apparently bizarre link between face shape and company performance, they argue.

Elaine Wong and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the US looked at 55 Fortune 500 companies, analysing the structure of their chief executive’s faces and financial performance indicators.

They reported that chief executives with wider faces, relative to the face’s height, had much better firm financial performance than chief executives with narrower faces.

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