From: Big Think
Wider-faced politicians are seen as more corrupt
October 2, 2018
New research offers a tip for politicians who don’t want to be seen as corrupt: don’t get a big head.
A new study showed people photos of politicians and asked them to rate how corruptible each seemed.
The results were published this week in Psychological Science by researchers at Caltech.
The volunteers were able to guess with significant accuracy which politicians were corrupt and which weren’t. The common denominator between the politicians who seemed guilty? A wide face, a trait that past research has linked to aggressive behavior in men.
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