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Going bald? People actually see you as intelligent, honest - and dominant

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Baldness comes to most men as they grow older – and many men spend hours in front of the mirror, fretting that they’re losing their looks.

But perhaps people shouldn’t be so anxious – as the way bald men are perceived is rather different from what you’d expect.

Researcher Dr Frank Muscarella says that people perceive bald men as honest, intelligent – and dominant.

Muscarella also found, crucially, that bald men have just as much sex as their hairier counterparts.

Speaking to Mail Online, Dr Muscarella says, ‘It could be speculated that although the characteristic of baldness decreases a man’s perceived physical attractiveness, it increases his perceived social dominance.

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‘There is a large body of literature that shows that although women like physically attractive men, they are also very attracted to signs of high social dominance.

‘My speculation is that as humans evolved and the group became increasingly important for survival, males played a more integral role in the family group, and it may have been adaptive to evolve a morphological sign of this dominance-related role and one that made the adult males appear less threatening and more approachable to facilitate interactions with them.’