Predicting election outcomes from positive and negative trait assessments of candidate images

Political Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-58

  Mattes, Kyle ^a   Spezio, Michael ^b   Kim, Hackjin ^c   Todorov, Alexander ^d   Adolphs, Ralph ^b   Alvarez, R Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Campaigning; Candidate images; Competence; Elections; Fear; Political behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749153283     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2009.00745.x     Document Type: Article

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