Scientists: people find muscular men good leaders – BBC

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In assessing leadership potential human muscular physique may be more important than knowledge – it said, American scientists. More information about the study can be found an article in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Initially, the experimenters determined force of men with a manual hydraulic dynamometer – the device measures the strength of the chest muscles and muscles in the hand feet and kilograms. Once the overall ranking of all participants, dressed in white T-shirts, photographed so that you can see the body, the chest muscles, shoulders and arms. More photos of these men were presented to 50 men and 50 women who were asked to rate how pleasant and promising these workers, how high they will be able to climb the career ladder. Were asked questions such as: “Will this person is a good leader, you think?”, “How effective will this man, working with others in the group?»

found that men that looked physically stronger, more given high status and perceived them as leaders. In the course of the experiment the researchers changed the photo on the strengths and weaknesses of the head men. Then, a weak people, have received strong pumped up body in the photo, were assessed as having a lot of leadership skills than to change pictures.

The study’s authors conclude that the physical form of man can have no recent impact when assessing his remaining abilities .

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