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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2006

We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate … collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of photos of 1,929 Finnish political candidates. Evaluations of beauty explain … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …

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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010

beauty is an asset for political candidates in intra-party competition and more so for candidates on the right in low …

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Height and Leadership

Lindqvist, Erik - 2010

This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2...

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Faces of Politicians: Babyfacedness Predicts Inferred Competence but Not Electoral Success

Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik; Berggren, Niclas - 2009

Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that babyfaced individuals are generally perceived to be less competent than maturefaced individuals. Taken together, this suggests that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less...

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