Appearance-based politics: Sex-typed facial cues communicate political party affiliation
Appearance-based politics: Sex-typed facial cues communicate political party affiliation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jesp.2012.08.009
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Johnson, Kerri L.
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作者：
Carpinella, Colleen M.;Johnson, Kerri L.
随之而来的政治判断往往依赖于面部表情，但推动这种判断的面部线索仍然不明确。我们预测，对政党归属的判断及其准确性依赖于面部线索的性别典型性（即面部男性气质和女性气质的程度）。在研究 1 中，我们发现在第 111 届美国众议院的共和党/保守党中，女性的性别特征明显高于男性。对于民主党/自由党来说情况并非如此。在研究 2 中，我们研究了面部线索的性别典型性与社会判断之间的关系。我们发现共和党分类的准确性与女性的女性暗示呈正相关，但与男性的男性暗示呈负相关。相比之下，民主党的分类则恰恰相反。面部性别典型性介导了政治家性别与政党和感知政党归属判断之间的相互作用。我们讨论这些发现对选举政治的影响。 (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. 保留所有权利。
Consequential political judgments often rely on facial appearance, yet the facial cues that compel such judgments remain unspecified. We predicted that judgments of political party affiliation, and by extension their accuracy, rely on the sex-typicality of facial cues (i.e., the degree of facial masculinity and femininity). In Study 1, we found that among Republicans/Conservatives in the 111th U.S. House of Representatives, women were significantly more sex-typical than men. This was not true for Democrats/Liberals. In Study 2, we examined the relationship between sex-typicality of facial cues and social judgments. We found that the accuracy of Republican categorizations was positively related to feminine cues in women but negatively related to masculine cues in men. In contrast, the opposite pattern was true for Democratic categorizations. Facial sex-typicality mediated the interaction between politician sex and party and perceiver party affiliation judgments. We discuss the implications that these findings have for electoral politics. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.