Facial Dominance and Electoral Success in Times of War and Peace

Do voters prefer dominant looking candidates in times of war? By replicating previous survey experiments, we find that respondents do prefer candidates with dominant facial features when war is salient. We then investigate whether these survey results generalize to the real world. Examining US Senat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Berinsky, Adam, Chatfield, Sara, Lenz, Gabriel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127273