Spectral analysis of candidates' nonverbal vocal communication: Predicting U.S. presidential election outcomes

By S. W. Gregory, Timothy J. Gallagher. 2002

108 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Philosophy

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In Developmental Biology

1. Björn Schuller
2. Alexander Todorov
3. Christopher Y. Olivola
4. Casey A. Klofstad
5. David Feinberg

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Shrikanth S. Narayanan
2. Alexander Todorov
3. Christopher Y. Olivola
4. Casey A. Klofstad

In Philosophy

1. Alexander Todorov
2. Christopher Y. Olivola
3. Casey A. Klofstad

Citations in the corpus

• Voice pitch influences voting behavior (2012, background): “While facial appearance alters voting behavior (Little et al., 2007; Todorov et al., 2005) and voice qualities are related to election outcomes and voting behavior (Gregory & Gallagher, 2002; Surawski & Ossoff, 2006), no study has investigated the role of voice pitch in voting-related perceptions.”
• Paralinguistics in speech and language - State-of-the-art and the challenge (2013, background): “Gregory and Gallagher (2002) demonstrate that US president election outcomes can be predicted on the basis of spectral information beneath 0.5 kHz, and Oberlander and Nowson (2006) employ textual features for personality classification of weblogs.”
• Is There a Visual Dominance in Political Communication? How Verbal, Visual, and Vocal Communication Shape Viewers' Impressions of Political Candidates (2012, background): “Voices with low pitches are often perceived as more credible (Gélinas-Chebat & Chebat, 1992; Gregory & Gallagher, 2002).”
• Elected in 100 milliseconds: Appearance-Based Trait Inferences and Voting (2010, methodology): “For example, Gregory and Gallagher (2002) performed a spectral analysis of candidates’ voice frequencies in 19 nationally televised American presidential debates.”
• Candidate Voice Pitch Influences Election Outcomes (2016, methodology): “Initial tests of this hypothesis show that voters prefer candidates with lower-pitched voices (Anderson & Klofstad, 2012; Gregory & Gallagher, 2002; Klofstad et al., 2012; Tigue et al., 2012).”