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

Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik; Berggren, Niclas

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dc.contributor.author	Poutvaara, Panu	de
dc.contributor.author	Jordahl, Henrik	de
dc.contributor.author	Berggren, Niclas	de
dc.date.accessioned	2012-06-19T02:59:00Z	de
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-29T23:02:31Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-29T23:02:31Z
dc.date.issued	2009	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/30989
dc.description.abstract	Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that babyfaced individuals are generally perceived to be less competent than maturefaced individuals. Taken together, this suggests that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less competent and therefore fare worse in elections. We test this hypothesis, making use of photograph-based judgments by 2,772 respondents of the facial appearance of 1,785 Finnish political candidates. Our results confirm that babyfacedness is negatively related to inferred competence in politics. Despite this, babyfacedness is either unrelated or positively related to electoral success, depending on the sample of candidates.	en
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Psychology	en
dc.subject.ddc	Psychologie	de
dc.subject.other	Babyfacedness; Competence; Beauty; Trustworthiness; Elections
dc.title	Faces of politicians: babyfacedness predicts inferred competence but not electoral success	en
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	Journal of Experimental Social Psychology	de
dc.source.volume	45	de
dc.source.issue	5	de
dc.subject.classoz	Social Psychology	en
dc.subject.classoz	Sozialpsychologie	de
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-309897	de
dc.date.modified	2012-06-19T10:23:00Z	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	en
ssoar.gesis.collection	SOLIS;ADIS	de
ssoar.contributor.institution	http://www.peerproject.eu/	de
internal.status	3	de
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.rights.copyright	f	de
dc.source.pageinfo	1132-1135
internal.identifier.classoz	10706
internal.identifier.journal	199	de
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	150
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.06.007	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	en
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	de
internal.identifier.licence	7
internal.identifier.pubstatus	2
internal.identifier.review	1
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer	CERTAIN
internal.check.languageharmonizer	CERTAIN_RETAINED

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