Smiles as Signals of Lower Status in Football Players and Fashion Models: Evidence That Smiles are Associated with Lower Dominance and Lower Prestige

Across four studies, the current paper demonstrates that smiles are associated with lower social status. Moreover, the association between smiles and lower status appears in the psychology of observers and generalizes across two forms of status: prestige and dominance. In the first study, faces of f...

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Main Authors: Timothy Ketelaar, Bryan L. Koenig, Daniel Gambacorta, Igor Dolgov, Daniel Hor, Jennifer Zarzosa, Cuauhtémoc Luna-Nevarez, Micki Klungle, Lee Wells
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-07-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491201000301