TY - JOUR A1 - Hahn, Tim A1 - Winter, Nils R. A1 - Anderl, Christine A1 - Notebaert, Karolien A1 - Wuttke, Alina Marie A1 - Clément, Celina Chantal A1 - Windmann, Sabine T1 - Facial width-to-height ratio differs by social rank across organizations, countries, and value systems T2 - PLoS one N2 - Facial Width-to-Height Ratio (fWHR) has been linked with dominant and aggressive behavior in human males. We show here that on portrait photographs published online, chief executive officers (CEOs) of companies listed in the Dow Jones stock market index and the Deutscher Aktienindex have a higher-than-normal fWHR, which also correlates positively with their company’s donations to charitable causes and environmental awareness. Furthermore, we show that leaders of the world’s most influential non-governmental organizations and even the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, the popes, have higher fWHR compared to controls on public portraits, suggesting that the relationship between displayed fWHR and leadership is not limited to profit-seeking organizations. The data speak against the simplistic view that wider-faced men achieve higher social status through antisocial tendencies and overt aggression, or the mere signaling of such dispositions. Instead they suggest that high fWHR is linked with high social rank in a more subtle fashion in both competitive as well as prosocially oriented settings. KW - Face KW - Photography KW - Behavior KW - Prosocial behavior KW - Labor studies KW - Finance KW - Permutation KW - Employment Y1 - 2017 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43811 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-438114 SN - 1932-6203 N1 - Copyright: © 2017 Hahn et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. VL - 12 IS - (11): e0187957 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - PLoS CY - Lawrence, Kan. ER -