To me confidence is similar to bravery. For instance I do not know how to dance or enjoy dancing, so walking around a group of hot girls and dancing would be seen as confident. Talking to them wouldn't be because I can and will talk to a group of any size of women.

Now perceived confidence--- I think this is related strongly to the persons jaw and chin (largely from my real world experience with a non-confident male friend who has a huge jaw and people always view him as confident)

http://i.imgur.com/X232Q4d.png

http://i.imgur.com/c82dEcK.jpg

Which of those two men do you see as Confident? (im not asking whos better looking--- only who is more CONFIDENT)

and we can be sure that we identify the PERSONALITY with APPEARANCE.

Example..

Imagine this dog is actually a bully dog who steals all his brothers and sisters food, and bites them and terrorizes the entire litter. Do you think girls (or people) would view this as an evil monster of a dog?

https://shechive.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/cutest-puppies-2.jpg?quality=100&strip=info&w=500