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Beautiful leaders - undermining democracy with a pretty face. 10 March 2015
Beautiful leaders - undermining democracy with a pretty face. 10 March 2015
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20 minutes
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Mar 10, 2015
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How democracy is undermined by the psychology of attractiveness: we discover why good looking candidates have an advantage come polling day, either because their beauty distracts from their extreme policies, or (if they're very lucky) because their constituents are ill.
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Remember David Cameron's allegedly airbrushed poster from 2010? Well, he might have been onto something...The articles covered in the show:Herrmann, M., & Shikano, S. (in press). Attractiveness and facial competence bias face-based inferences of candidate ideology. Political Psychology. Read summaryZebrowitz, L. A., Franklin, R. G., & Palumbo, R. (2015). Ailing voters advance attractive congressional candidates. Evolutionary Psychology, 13(1), 16-28. Read summary
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Remember David Cameron's allegedly airbrushed poster from 2010? Well, he might have been onto something...The articles covered in the show:Herrmann, M., & Shikano, S. (in press). Attractiveness and facial competence bias face-based inferences of candidate ideology. Political Psychology. Read summaryZebrowitz, L. A., Franklin, R. G., & Palumbo, R. (2015). Ailing voters advance attractive congressional candidates. Evolutionary Psychology, 13(1), 16-28. Read summary
Released:
Mar 10, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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