Huh wins Fulbright
Scholar Award
Sahn-Wook Huh,
associate professor
of finance,
has received a
Fulbright Scholar
Award, one of the
most prestigious
scholarships in the
world.
For the 2021-22 academic year,
Huh holds the Fulbright Canada
Distinguished Research Chair
in Entrepreneurship at Carleton
University in Ottawa, Canada. The
grant allows him to present his
research at workshops and seminars
at Carleton and funds his research
on the effect of prescription drug
approvals on financial markets.
Throughout his distinguished
academic career, Huh has also won
several awards from the Financial
Management Association (FMA)
and at international conferences—
including another accolade for Best
Paper in Market Microstructure at
the 2021 FMA Annual Meeting.
Read more at bit.ly/huh-fulbright.
Spring 2022 Buffalo Business 25
Beautiful people are more likely to
get hired, receive better performance
evaluations and get paid more—but it's
not just because of their good looks,
according to research co-authored by
Min-Hsuan Tu, assistant professor of
organization and human resources.
Published in Personnel Psychology,
the study found that while a "beauty
premium" exists across professions,
it's partially because attractive people
develop distinct traits as a result of how
the world responds to their attractive-
ness. They build a greater sense of power
and have more opportunities to
improve nonverbal communication
skills throughout their lives.
The researchers discovered
that by striking a 'power pose'—
standing with feet shoulder-width
apart, hands on hips, chest out and
chin up—less attractive people
were able to match the level of nonverbal
presence that their more attractive coun-
terparts displayed naturally.
"By adopting the physical postures
associated with feelings of power and
confidence, less attractive people can
minimize behavioral differences in the
job search," says Tu. "But power posing is
not the only solution—anything that can
make you feel more powerful, like doing a
confidence self-talk, visualizing yourself
succeeding, or reflecting on past accom-
plishments before a social evaluation situ-
ation, can also help."
Read more at bit.ly/
ubmgtpowerpose.
Attractiveness pays off at work—but there's a trick to
level the playing field
Strike a pose
Huh
Photo: Douglas Levere
Tu demonstrates
a power pose.
