The powerful size others down: The link between power and estimates of others' size

► Power distorts impressions of another person's physical size. ► The powerful systematically underestimated the size of the target. ► The powerless systematically overestimated the size of the target. ► Results emerged whether the target was in a photograph or face-to-face. ► Power leads people to misperceive complementary power cues in others.