Women with more feminine faces do better at the hustings
Washington, May 16 – Researchers have highlighted voters’ perception of traditional femininity, political competence.
According to the Dartmouth College-led study, female politicians’ success can be predicted by their facial features, especially in conservative states where women with more feminine faces tend to do better at the ballot box.
The researchers used software called MouseTracker that was developed by the study’s senior author Jon Freeman, an assistant professor and director of the Social Cognitive and Neural Sciences Lab at Dartmouth.