Eyebrows cue grandiose narcissism

Giacomin, Miranda; Rule, Nicholas O.

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“…Using a new set of stimuli, our analyses indicated that high narcissism was the only dark triad trait that could be detected in both female and male prototypes. These results replicate Holtzman's (2011) results for narcissism and are also consistent with other recent work suggesting the existence of facial correlates of narcissism (Giacomin & Rule, 2018). Participants did not identify high-Machiavellianism female or male prototypes and detected highpsychopathy female prototypes correctly less often than would be expected by chance alone.…”

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“…Future studies should also investigate if participants who score higher on the dark triad can more easily detect dark triad traits in faces, since women who scored higher on Machiavellianism have been found to be better at detecting lies (Lyons et al, 2017). Additionally, it may be important to explore which facial features are related to high dark triad traits, since a recent study found people can detect grandiose narcissism based on thickness and density of targets' eyebrows (Giacomin & Rule, 2018).…”

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Are dark triad cues really visible in faces?

Shiramizu

Kozma

DeBruine

et al. 2019

Personality and Individual Differences

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The 'dark triad' refers to the personality traits narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. Previous research found that participants could distinguish dark triad faces when judging images with average facial characteristics of people who scored either high or low on these traits. These results suggest that faces contain valid cues to dark triad personality traits and that the dark triad is a set of physical-morphological characteristics, as well as a set of psycho-social characteristics. Because putative links between personality traits and facial appearance have often not replicated well across studies, we attempted to replicate these results with a new set of face images. Participants correctly identified the high-narcissism male and female prototypes and the high-psychopathy male prototype significantly more often than would be expected by chance. By contrast, our analyses showed no evidence that participants could discriminate between the high-and low-Machiavellianism prototypes for either sex. Surprisingly, participants correctly identified the high-psychopathy female prototype significantly less often than would be expected by chance alone. Together our results suggest that male and female faces contain valid cues of narcissism, but do not necessarily contain valid cues of psychopathy or Machiavellianism.

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Are dark triad cues really visible in faces?

Shiramizu

Kozma

DeBruine

et al. 2019

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…It is possible that unmeasured personality features (e.g., sociosexuality, self-rated attractiveness) of the raters may moderate these findings. Indeed, recent work suggests that eyebrows may signal personality qualities (e.g., narcissism; Giacomin and Rule, 2018) that influence perceptions of attractiveness. Additionally, effect sizes in the current study were relatively small, and so investigation into the mediating effects of individual difference variables may further explain this relationship.…”

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The Relative Contribution of Jawbone and Cheekbone Prominence, Eyebrow Thickness, Eye Size, and Face Length to Evaluations of Facial Masculinity and Attractiveness: A Conjoint Data-Driven Approach

Mogilski

Welling

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Recent work demonstrates the methodological rigor of a type of data-driven analysis (i.e., conjoint analysis; CA), which accounts for the relative contribution of different facial morphological cues to interpersonal perceptions of romantic partner quality. This study extends this literature by using a conjoint face ranking task to predict the relative contribution of five sexually dimorphic facial shape features (jawbone and cheekbone prominence, eyebrow thickness, eye size, face length) to participants’ (N = 922) perceptions of facial attractiveness and sex-typicality (i.e., masculinity/femininity). For overall partner attractiveness, eyebrow thickness and jawbone prominence were relatively more salient than cheekbone prominence and eye size. Interestingly, masculinized (i.e., thicker) eyebrows were marginally more attractive for female than male faces, particularly within a long-term mating context. Masculinized jawbone prominence was more attractive for male than female faces, and feminized jawbone prominence was more attractive for female than male faces. For perceptions of masculinity, eyebrow thickness, jawbone prominence, and facial height were relatively more salient than cheekbone prominence and eye size, although facial height was more important for female than male faces, and jawbone prominence was marginally more important for male than female faces. These findings highlight the prominence of eyebrows, the jawline, and facial height during perception of facial attractiveness and masculinity – though it should be noted that many of these differences were small to moderate in effect size. Findings are interpreted in the context of prior research, and future directions for studying why these facial traits exhibit superior signaling capacity are discussed.

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“…People can accurately perceive grandiose narcissism in others based on minimal information (e.g., Giacomin & Rule, 2018;Holtzman, 2011;Holtzman & Strube, 2013;Naumann, Vazire, Rentfrow, & Gosling, 2009;Vazire, Naumann, Rentfrow, & Gosling, 2008). They use cues associated with grandiose narcissists' physical appearance-such as stylish, expensive clothing and neater, more organized appearance (Back, Schmukle, & Egloff, 2010;Vazire et al, 2008)-to accurately perceive narcissism in others, yet still form positive first impressions of grandiose narcissists.…”

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Misperceiving grandiose narcissism as self‐esteem: Why narcissists are well liked at zero acquaintance

Giacomin

Jordan

2018

Journal of Personality

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Objective We examine why people form positive first impressions of grandiose narcissists, even though they can identify others’ narcissism. We test whether this occurs because narcissists are perceived to have especially high self‐esteem, which is socially valued. Method Across four studies, undergraduate perceivers viewed photographs of targets (for whom narcissism and self‐esteem were known) and rated perceptions of their narcissism and self‐esteem, as well as how much they liked them. Results Perceivers rated more narcissistic targets to be higher in self‐esteem (even compared to targets with equally high self‐esteem) and liked them more. Perceptions of self‐esteem, moreover, mediated the effect of target narcissism on liking (Study 1). This effect disappeared when targets’ narcissism was made salient, suggesting that trait narcissism is not inherently attractive (Study 2). Finally, path models revealed a negative effect of perceptions of narcissism on liking that was suppressed by a positive effect of perceptions of self‐esteem on liking (Study 3a), even for ratings of people’s online dating profiles (Study 3b). Conclusions Positive initial impressions of narcissists may be driven by inflated perceptions that they have high self‐esteem.

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Eyebrows cue grandiose narcissism

Abstract: Together, these data show that distinctive eyebrows reveal narcissists' personality to others, providing a basic understanding of the mechanism through which people can identify narcissistic personality traits with potential application to daily life.

Cited by 17 publications

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Are dark triad cues really visible in faces?

Are dark triad cues really visible in faces?

The Relative Contribution of Jawbone and Cheekbone Prominence, Eyebrow Thickness, Eye Size, and Face Length to Evaluations of Facial Masculinity and Attractiveness: A Conjoint Data-Driven Approach

Misperceiving grandiose narcissism as self‐esteem: Why narcissists are well liked at zero acquaintance

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