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Effects of masculinity vs. femininity on competence judgement of politician faces and election outcome prediction.
| العنوان: | Effects of masculinity vs. femininity on competence judgement of politician faces and election outcome prediction. |
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| المؤلفون: | Cheung OS; Department of Psychology, Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE. olivia.cheung@nyu.edu.; Center for Brain and Health, NYUAD Research Institute, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE. olivia.cheung@nyu.edu., Jintcharadze D; Department of Psychology, Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE. |
| المصدر: | Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2023 Oct 06; Vol. 13 (1), pp. 16825. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 06. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Nature Publishing Group Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101563288 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2045-2322 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 20452322 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Sci Rep Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: London : Nature Publishing Group, copyright 2011- |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Masculinity* , Femininity*, Female ; Male ; Humans ; Judgment ; Leadership ; Politics |
| مستخلص: | First impressions of politician faces can be effective in predicting election outcomes, based on perceived competence from candidate photographs. However, it remains unclear whether such effects arose from facial features or other non-facial information present in the photographs (e.g. hairstyles, clothes, or poses). In four pre-registered studies, participants completed two tasks in a counter-balanced order: rating competence of individually presented faces and predicting election outcome of each pair of winner and runner-up faces. We examined competence judgment and election outcome prediction on faces from male politicians depicted on original portraits (Experiment 1), or on computer-generated faces with facial features extracted from the portraits (Experiment 2). The faces were then either masculinized or feminized (Experiments 3 and 4). We found that competence ratings were significantly higher for winners than runners-up and that winners were more likely predicted to win the elections than runners-up in all but Experiment 4, where faces of the winners were feminized and faces of the runners-up were masculinized. Regardless of facial feature changes, correlations were found between competence ratings and election outcome prediction. These findings suggest that facial features are critical for evaluating competence and predicting election outcome, and that masculine features may enhance stereotypical leadership impressions. (© 2023. Springer Nature Limited.) |
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| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20231006 Date Completed: 20231009 Latest Revision: 20231119 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20231215 |
| مُعرف محوري في PubMed: | PMC10558476 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-023-44159-7 |
| PMID: | 37803154 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
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