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Reality or appearance?

Spektrum der Wissenschaft
16.3.2024
Translation: machine translated

Respected people do not necessarily have special virtues or abilities. Some can do one thing above all: present themselves well.

A third theory was not confirmed: that dominance characteristics promote status. Those who were tall had slightly more influence than physically smaller people. But those who wanted to assert themselves ruthlessly were even more unpopular and less respected. Self-confident behaviour, on the other hand, proved to be advantageous. Combined with extraversion and an appearance focussed on impact, the authors see this as a fourth status factor: dazzling self-presentation.

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