For power and status, dominance and skill trump likability

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 10:20 in Mathematics & Economics

Finding the next Barack Obama or Warren Buffett might be as simple as looking at who attracts the most eyes in a crowd, a new study finds. For the study, which used eye-tracking technology, participants who observed groups of strangers were able to accurately predict who would emerge as leader of the group in 120 seconds or less.

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