title: Facial Dominance in Homo Sapiens as Honest Signaling of Male Quality
creator: Mueller, U.
creator: Mazur, A.
subject: Social Psychology
description: For a cohort of military officers, graduates of the class of 1950 of the United States Military Academy at West Point, dominant facial appearance was a cosnistent and important predictor of rank attainment at the academy and - for those who graduated from staff college - for high final rank. For men performing below the average, however, dominant facial appearance was a handicap for promotion. High rank came with high fitness. Thus, facial dominance can be an evolutionarily stable honest signal of dominant behavior, a crucial dimension of the potential for high stastus in a male dominance hierarchy. These findings may apply also to civilian populations.
date: 1998
type: Preprint
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/696/1/ms96_1~2.html
identifier:   Mueller, U. and Mazur, A.  (1998) Facial Dominance in Homo Sapiens as Honest Signaling of Male Quality.  [Preprint]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/696/