Vote Choice, Ideology, and Social Dominance Orientation Influence Preferences for Lower Pitched Voices in Political Candidates

Humans are equipped with a psychological system of followership that evolved to regulate choices of leaders based partly on would-be leaders’ physiological features. One such feature is voice pitch, which is determined by the physiology of the throat. Recent studies find that political candidates in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lasse Laustsen, Michael Bang Petersen, Casey A. Klofstad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-08-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704915600576