Beautiful People Have Higher IQs, Study
Scientists believe that our personality characteristics can be understood just by looking at our face.
Research seems to indicate that people who have IQs on the higher scale are more good-looking, while those with wider faces are usually perceived as being more powerful and successful.
Some evidence of even "sexual deviancy" can be indicated by the face, as paedophiles are more likely to have a few minor facial flaws, according to sciencedaily.
Hence, we tend to make certain assessments of people we meet for the first time. But even if that takes not more than a "tenth of a second" it could be right.
Mark Fetscherin, professor of international business at Rollins College, Florida, recently located a link between a firm's profits and the shape of its chief executive's face. In his new book called 'CEO Branding', Mr Fetscherin puts in a word on the executives, who exhibit wider faces than the average male. The wider face tends to make a person look more "dominant and successful", Mr Fetscherin said.
He explained: "Facial width-to-height ratio correlates with real world measures of aggressive and ambitious behavior and is associated with a psychological sense of power."
Analysing FTSE chief executives made British scientists give a similar result.
The main cause seems to be high levels of testosterone, said Jamie Ward, professor of psychology and his co-author Shuaa Alrajih. They said that the hormone is related to "aggression and the pursuit of dominance" and can even impact bone as well as muscle structure.
Many can even identify negative qualities from a face. Hence, at Cornell University, when scientists exposed some mugshots of faces to a number of people, they found that they could tell apart the guilty from the innocent.
People who have a high IQ are seen to be more good-looking. This is mainly due to the high quality of DNA "with few mutations" that have been inherited, according to Leslie Zebrowitz, professor of social relations at Brandeis University, near Boston, according to dailymail.
