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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Honestly, that thing is far more gross than poor ole Helen.
They all have great faces for radio...
That’s what a chipmunk would look like if it suddenly turned into a human.
She always has that weird, anencephalic look to her, like you could shine a light behind her head and her pupils would light up.
Someone has posted a picture of Pope Benedict meeting Laura Bush when her husband was still president and she had not told the world she was pro-abortion and pro homo “marriage”. She did that after Bush Jr. left office. The Catholic-bashers will go to any length to try and discredit the Pope, even if the Pope was Benedict.
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