?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Facial+Dominance&rft.creator=Mazur%2C+Allan&rft.creator=Mueller%2C+Ulrich&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=Unfortunately%2C+looks+matter.+Everyone+should+start+life+on+a+level+playing+field%2C+but+they+don%C2%92t.+The+egalitarianism+embedded+in+modern+social+science+abhors+%22built+in%22+disadvantages%2C+whether+in+social+structure+or+in+personal+capital.+But+while+explicating+the+consequences+of+structural+inequalities%2C+social+science+ignores+equally+important+differences+in+how+we+look%2C+in+the+effects+on+our+fortunes+of+our+faces+and+physiques.+The+late+sociologist+Louis+Dotson+used+to+remind+his+colleagues+that+%22we+have+bodies%2C%22+but+few+heard+his+message+in+the+epoch+after+World+War+II%2C+when+the+echoes+of+biological+racism+were+still+loud.+Today+the+issue+is+ripe+for+attention%2C+if+approached+with+a+proper+respect+for+past+abuses.+We+cringe+at+reviving+the+term+%22physiognomy%2C%22+which+carries+so+much+baggage%2C+but+we+do+indeed+address+here+the+behavioral+importance+of+people%C2%92s+faces.&rft.publisher=London%2C+JAI+Press&rft.contributor=Somit%2C+A.&rft.contributor=Peterson%2C+S.&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F631%2F1%2FFacdom.html&rft.identifier=++Mazur%2C+Allan+and+Mueller%2C+Ulrich++(1996)+Facial+Dominance.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F631%2F