TY - JOUR T1 - Context-specific effects of facial dominance and trustworthiness on hypothetical leadership decisions JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/575597 SP - 575597 AU - Hannah S. Ferguson AU - Anya Owen AU - Amanda C. Hahn AU - Jaimie Torrance AU - Lisa M. DeBruine AU - Benedict C. Jones Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/03/13/575597.abstract N2 - Social judgments of faces predict important social outcomes, including leadership decisions. Previous work suggests that facial cues associated with perceptions of dominance and trustworthiness have context-specific effects on leadership decisions. Facial cues linked to perceived dominance have been found to be preferred in leaders for hypothetical wartime contexts and facial cues linked to perceived trustworthiness have been found to be preferred in leaders for hypothetical peacetime contexts. Here we sought to replicate these effects using images of women’s faces. Consistent with previous work, a linear mixed effects model demonstrated that more trustworthy-looking faces were preferred in leaders during times of peace and more dominant-looking faces were preferred in leaders during times of war. These results provide converging evidence for context-specific effects of facial cues on hypothetical leadership judgments. ER -