Facial first impressions of dominance may have a parallel to perceived competence of a person. Dominance affects males and females differently. Sutherland, Young, Mootz, and Oldmeadow (2015) found in a series of four studies, where they used sets of counter-stereotypical faces, that faces were evaluated different depending on the gender and masculine-looking females received more negative descriptions than feminine females and masculine males. It was also found that the dominant looking females were associated with not being trustworthy. They demonstrated that social categories could influence first impressions of facial dimensions. The negative evaluations of masculine-looking women might be due to social processes where women that behave
