Posted on 05/17/2014 3:54:43 PM PDT by kingattax
Predicting election results can be a tricky business. But according to a new study by Dartmouth College, you can often guess whether a female candidate will win an election by quickly looking at her face.
"Female politicians with more feminine features tend to win elections, while those with more masculine features tend to lose," the authors of the study, published Thursday in the journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science, write. "Whether a female politician was going to win or lose an election could be predicted within just 380 milliseconds after participants were exposed to her face."
Voters, the study found, prefer female politicians with feminine features. "These effects were independent of other social dimensions previously implicated in political decision making, such as competence, attractiveness, and familiarity," the study said.
The authors used traditional definitions of facial cues: "Larger eyes and rounded features convey femininity whereas lateral bone growth and prominent upper brows signal masculinity."
To conduct the study, researchers relied on Senate and gubernatorial election results between 1998 and 2010. The study's 300 participants were shown candidate's faces and asked to identify them as male or female. Using computer mouse tracking technology, hesitation and uncertainty was graphed, and later compared with the real election results.
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you could put up posters of that group all over the worst inner city government housing projects and never see another cockroach or rat.
“She” does look like Perry Farrell.
You just became my favorite freeper! Thanks!
Strike pro-abort, homo-marriage supporting Laura Bush off that list of conservative women.
Laura Bush isn’t conservative.
Your pictures would have been more shocking if you hadn’t chosen the best shot for each example.
well you're easy to please... 8^)
Ok what is up with Keith Richards. I don’t recall him running for office. I suppose I need to keep up with news. The last time I heard about Keith is when he fell off a Palm Tree.
Probably a cast member on The Walking Dead =)
no argument about L Bush
Is she still living in her car? I haven’t been over there for a long time....
That’s not a ‘Hello Kitty’ knock-off, either...
Been trying to put my finger on who she reminds me of for a while now and that’s it.
Come on, Dartmouth...you could shot that nonsense to hell by looking out your window...Red Hampshire has two nasty chicks representing them in the House, two more in the Senate, and one in the Governor’s mansion...they were NOT elected based on their ‘feminine features’...
Well.. this rules out CANKLES.
Re your post 23, I think that beauty is a representative from Connecticut, no? I just cannot remember her name.
Thanks,Chode. You’re a pal.
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