Bald Men May Be More Powerful People! You’ll start seeing a lot more guys with bald heads after watching this piece. That’s because a new Ivy League study found that bald is a symbol of power. Researchers had volunteers rate how powerful men looked in a series of photographs. One shot featured them with a full head of hair. Shot number two was digitally altered so they had thinning hair and in photo number three, they were bald.

 

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The result? The bald men were considered significantly more powerful than their hairy and thinning-haired counterparts! In fact, bald men were described as "dominant, powerful, confident and influential." Also, volunteers thought the bald men were an inch taller, and 13% physically stronger, than men WITH hair.

So, why does having no hair impart power?  A lot of people automatically associate bald heads with tough guy-groups - like soldiers, or police officers - where short hair is part of the dress code.

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