Predictors of Fighting Ability Inferences Based on Faces.

ABSTRACT: Facial perception plays a key role in various social interactions, including formidability assessments. People make relatively accurate inferences about men's physical strength, aggressiveness, and success in physical confrontations based on facial cues. The physical factors related to the perception of fighting ability and their relative contribution have not been investigated yet, since most existing studies employed only a limited number of threat potential measures or proxies. In the present study, we collected data from Czech Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters regarding their fighting success and physical performance in order to test physical predictors of perceived fighting ability made on the basis of high-fidelity facial photographs. We have also explored the relationship between pe

SUBMITTER: Trebicky V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6341000 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature