Taller men have a much harder time telling masculine faces from feminine ones than shorter men. In the study, researchers showed 112 young men faces that had been digitally edited to look more or less masculine or feminine, then asked them to quickly say whether each face was male or female. The taller and heavier guys’ answers barely changed no matter how much the faces had been altered. Shorter men’s judgments, by contrast, were much more sensitive to the same changes. Men were also better overall at noticing these masculinity cues in other men’s faces than in women’s faces. Evolutionarily, accurately reading dominance signals in other men’s faces would have helped guys decide whether to compete or steer clear of conflict. Shorter men, facing greater physical risk, would have especially benefited from picking up on these cues to gauge danger or assess rivals more accurately, while taller men could afford to be less responsive since misjudging carried lower costs for them.

In the logistic regression, the key interaction odds ratio was 0.66 for both height and weight (and 0.70 for BMI). The effect size was moderate but consistent and statistically reliable. This means that for every standard deviation increase in a man’s height (about 4.2 cm / 1.6 inches in this sample), the influence of the facial masculinity/femininity changes on his gender judgments dropped by roughly 34%. The main effect of the facial changes was very large overall, but it was noticeably weaker the taller/heavier the man was.

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People with lower intelligence quotients tend to display more pathological adoration or intense idolatry toward celebrities

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