Researchers have found that tucking the chin and lowering the head by just 10 degrees makes people seem more dominating. The study published in the journal Psychological Science shows that facial features are not the only source of this information we also draw social inferences from the head itself. We show that tilting one's head downward systematically changes the way the face is perceived such that a neutral face a face with no muscle movement or facial expression appears to be more dominant when the head is tilted down said researchers Zachary Witkower and Jessica Tracy of the University of