Mature CEO looks are correlated with company performance

When it comes to big business, appearances it seems, matter a lot.
Companies tend to be more profitable if they have a chief executive
with a face rated by observers as being more competent, dominant and
mature.

Similarly, companies with a chief executive judged to be
a good leader, based purely on his facial appearance, also tend to be
more profitable. These associations still hold even after controlling
for the influence of age and attractiveness.

As Nicholas Rule
and Nalini Ambady, who conducted the research, point out: it isn’t at
all clear whether chief executives with a certain kind of appearance
help their company towards profit, or if instead profitable companies
choose to employ chief executives who look a certain way.

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