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Researchers at Tufts University in Massachusetts have come up with an interesting take on faces. Using photographs of top and bottom Chief Executives of Fortune 1000 companies, they got their students to rate them as “powerful” or “warm”. They found:-
“CEO’s who are ranked higher in terms of looking more powerful do better or have more profitable companies than those who are ranked warm.”
So does your face determine your fate, as they suggest? [Read more…]
