This month’s featured Press Research With a Prominent Exclamation Point was issued today by the Association for Psychological Science. It begins:
What Determines A Company’s Performance? The Shape Of The CEO’s Face!
Believe it or not, one thing that predicts how well a CEO’s company performs is – the width of his face! CEOs with wider faces, like Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines, have better-performing companies than CEOs like Dick Fuld, the long-faced final CEO of Lehman Brothers. That’s the conclusion of a new study which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
The press release helpfully contains neither the name of the study nor a link to it, but mentions that the study is by “Elaine M. Wong at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her colleagues.”
(HT @GlobeCarolynYJ)