Is a picture worth a thousand words? Newspaper photographs and voter evaluations of political candidates

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 98-113

  Barrett, Andrew W ^a   Barrington, Lowell W ^a,b  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate image; Elections; Gender differences; Media effects; Newspaper photographs; Voting decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644474426     PISSN: 1081180X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1081180X05281392     Document Type: Article

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