Honest Signals of Status: Facial and Bodily Dominance Are Related to Success in Physical but Not Nonphysical Competition

Recent studies suggest that both facial and bodily dominance promote high status positions and predict status-seeking behaviors such as aggression and social dominance. An evolutionarily relevant context in which associations between these dominance signals and status outcomes may be prevalent are f...

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Main Authors: Tobias L. Kordsmeyer, Daniel Freund, Mark van Vugt, Lars Penke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-07-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704919863164