Bearded Men Look Angrier Than Clean-Shaven Types
When they are angry but happier when they are jolly say scientists
April 1, 2019
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar for his dramatic transformation into rugged explorer Hugh Glass in The Revenant, but first won hearts as clean cut Jack Dawson in Titanic.
Now an Australian research team have come up with a convincing reason why Leo’s performance as the fierce frontiersman may have sparked stronger audience reactions than his outing as a doomed passenger on the 1912 cruise liner.
Dr Belinda Craig, from the University of New England in Australia, lead the study into the effect of a bushier chin on men communicating their emotions and masculinity.
She and her team found that people were quicker to recognise a bearded man’s display of anger than that of an angry clean shaven man.
They surveyed 700 people, asking them to rate the emotions and the intensity displayed on a range of male faces – bearded and not bearded.
The team’s results, in a recently published paper in Psychological Science, suggests that a beard changed the way a man’s facial structure is seen and help people make a judgement about a man’s anger and masculinity.
‘Beards emphasise the jaw… leading to faster recognition of anger,’ she to The Times.
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