It’s not news that some female leaders have a likeability problem. In September, Trump said of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, “People don’t like her. Nobody likes her.” During ...

Hillary Clinton knows she’ll never be elected president if she can’t figure out a way to win your affection. The problem is, even with a quarter-century of “public service” under her belt, Hillary can ...

The number of women elected officials is currently at an all-time high in the United States. But despite that, gender biases still continue to prevail within the national political scene. According to ...

A new study in The Economic Journal finds that likeability is an influencing factor in interactions between women, as well as interactions between men and women, but not in all-male interactions. The ...

Likeability is commonly accepted as a predictor of successful advertising. But many small-business advertisers fail to exploit the benefits of likeability because of uncertainty about its relevance or ...

Journalist Alicia Menendez has noticed a problem: in the workplace, and in many aspects of their lives, women are forced into becoming inauthentic versions of themselves in order to be likeable. Her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author of “The Likeability Trap” tells Mika Brzezinski how women have been overly conditioned to think about themselves in ...

A new study suggests that children doing well in classrooms are more popular and emotionally secure than their peers who are having trouble academically. The research from the University of Missouri ...

"I never met a man I didn't like," Will Rogers is reputed to have said. That maxim might represent a healthy outlook on life, but should likeability be a priority as we consider for whom we will vote?