Early Processing of Gendered Facial Cues Predicts the Electoral Success of Female Politicians

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 815-824

  Hehman, Eric ^a   Carpinella, Colleen M ^b   Johnson, Kerri L ^b   Leitner, Jordan B ^c   Freeman, Jonathan B ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

conservatism; face perception; gender; politics; social categorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908103462     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614534701     Document Type: Article

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