Analysis of the Visual Perception of the Competences of Project Managers

Rocio Poveda-Bautista,Jose-Antonio Diego-Mas,Jorge Alcaide-Marzal

doi:10.3390/su13094984

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https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094984

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Apr 29, 2021
Citations: 1	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Universitat Politècnica de València

Abstract

Based on the appearance of their faces, we attribute to people personality traits, moods, capacities, or competences. This unconscious process plays a central role in our everyday decisions and how we choose partners or our favorite candidate. This work is the first approach to the analysis of the influence of appearance-driven judgments of faces in the project management field. The main objective of this study was to obtain an approximate image of the general mental prototype of the face of a project manager using noise-based reverse correlation. The obtained image shows the features of the faces that drive the perception of a good project manager. The face shows very high average scores for all the competences recognized in the IPMA Individual Competence Baseline when assessed by a sample of project management practitioners. From these results, it can be stated that people have clearly defined prototypes of facial features that convey the perception of being a competent project manager, and this finding may have implications in the project management field.

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We have neural networks in our brain specialized in processing face information [1,2].Face perception research has found that human beings are able to quickly detect and identify faces [3,4], and through the information gathered from them, determine the gender, the race, and guess the age of people
The complete set of scores obtained in the second phase of this work is available in Appendix A (Table A1) and the means, the standard deviations, and the confidence intervals of the scores for each competence given to the prototypical face (PF) and the anti-PF are presented in
From the results of this work, it can be stated that people have clearly defined prototypes of facial features that convey the sensation of being a competent project manager, and this finding has important implications in the project management field

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We have neural networks in our brain specialized in processing face information [1,2]. Face perception research has found that human beings are able to quickly detect and identify faces [3,4], and through the information gathered from them, determine the gender, the race, and guess the age of people. We can estimate the aims and intentions of people that interact with us or detect the emotional state of our interlocutors. It is a common belief that the face is the most direct way to know the true nature of a person; a window showing their feelings and emotions [8]. Recent studies have shown that our brains need only milliseconds of exposure to recognize a face and to form an impression of the owner’s personality traits or moods [9].

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