Faces of politicians: Babyfacedness predicts inferred competence but not electoral success

By Panu Poutvaara, Henrik Jordahl, Niclas Berggren. 2009

145 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/871a58b1163656cbed729d5238b76a85a258300d

How researchers see this paper

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Alexander Todorov
2. Christopher Y. Olivola

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Christopher Y. Olivola
2. Dawn L. Eubanks
3. Jeffrey B. Lovelace
4. Alexander Todorov
5. Ron Dotsch
6. Nikolaas N. Oosterhof
7. Peter Mende-Siedlecki
8. M. Petersen

In Marketing

1. Dawn L. Eubanks
2. Jeffrey B. Lovelace
3. Christopher Y. Olivola
4. Alexander Todorov

Citations in the corpus

• Elected in 100 milliseconds: Appearance-Based Trait Inferences and Voting (2010, methodology): “Similarly, Poutvaara et al. (2009) showed that competence judgments provided by non-Finnish participants predicted the election outcomes in Finland, while Antonakis and Dalgas showed that competence judgments provided by Swiss participants predicted the results of French parliamentary elections.”
• The many (distinctive) faces of leadership: Inferring leadership domain from facial appearance (2014, background): “In the domain of politics, numerous studies have found that more competent-looking political candidates garner larger vote shares (e.g., Antonakis & Dalgas, 2009, Ballew & Todorov, 2007; Poutvaara et al., 2009; for a review of this literature, see Olivola & Todorov, 2010a).”