Sex-­Typed Facial Cues, Partisanship and Support for Trump

Sex-Typed Facial Cues, Partisanship and Support for Trump

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Abstract: Voters make consequential assessments of politicians based on visual cues. Female Republican politicians are more likely to have stereotypically feminine facial features than their Democratic counterparts, and the relationship is strong enough that respondents can guess the political affiliation of the women with an accuracy that exceeded chance. I predicted that female, Trump-supporting Republicans holding office in 2016 would have the highest average of facial sex-typicality, followed by all female Republican elected officials. My prediction expected that female Democratic elected officials would have the relatively lowest score of sex-typicality. The averages of sex-typicality were suggestive that the hypothesis was correct, but the differences were statistically insignificant.

Type of resource	text
Date created	2017

Author	Byrnes, Caitlin
Advisor	Iyengar, Shanto
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Communication

Subject	Sex-typed facial cues
Subject	gender
Subject	politics
Subject	Stanford University Department of Communication
Subject	Donald Trump
Genre	Thesis

Related Publication	Carpinella, C. M. ,Hehman, E., Freeman, J. & Johnson, K. (2015): The Gendered Face of Partisan Politics: Consequences of Facial Sex Typicality for Vote Choice, Political Communication, DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2014.958260
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Preferred Citation: Byrnes, Caitlin. (2017). Sex-Typed Facial Cues, Partisanship and Support for Trump. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/zj731yx8146

Masters Theses in Media Studies, Department of Communication, Stanford University

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