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Topic Started: Feb 24 2010, 10:32 PM (582 Views)
Mason
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Check out the picture at link.

MSN put this article and the Picture as the lead story on their website.

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Your Political Party: Written on Your Face


Your face says a lot about you. It says some obvious stuff (your age, gender, and race, for example, are usually apparent by the way your face looks), but people can also glean other information from your mug—like your political party.

A recent study at Tufts took a bunch of undergraduates, showed them pictures of Democrat and Republican candidates from the 2004 and 2006 Senate elections, and asked them to guess each politician's political party. To eliminate any racial bias (people might think a black politician had to be a Democrat) they eliminated racial minority politicians.

The result? They found that the students' guesses were much better than chance. They also found that the students were good at guessing the political party affiliation of other students based on pictures of their faces.

The subtle clue the students used to make their guesses? Republicans' faces tended to score higher on a measure of "power," based on how dominant and mature they looked. Democrats' faces scored higher for "warmth," as based on their perceived likeability and trustworthiness.

I don't want to further unhelpful stereotypes about our political parties, but this is undeniably interesting stuff. What wasn't clear from the study is how the causation goes, though. Do Democrats try to look "warmer" (and Republicans more "powerful") or do the underlying traits cause the political beliefs?

http://www.good.is/post/your-political-party-written-on-your-face/?GT1=48001


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Rosie O'Donnell ?


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Edited by Mason, Feb 24 2010, 10:41 PM.
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Sarah has a nice face :)
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Concerned
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What about Al Franken vs. Scott Brown?

I'd vote Brown!
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http://www.good.is/post/your-political-party-written-on-your-face/?GT1=48001

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Edited by Kerri P., Feb 25 2010, 01:01 AM.
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Feb 25 2010, 01:00 AM
http://www.good.is/post/your-political-party-written-on-your-face/?GT1=48001

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Thanks Kerri.

That is the picture MSN had up on their main page with the link to this story. The source itself also used that picture of Rush Limbaugh.

John Edwards must have a trusting face!

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Edited by Mason, Feb 25 2010, 06:32 AM.
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Joan Foster

I can't remember who wrote this (not me) but it fits:

"A hippopotamus' smile
Conceals a nature full of guile."

:bunn:
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foxglove

James Carville? He excudes warmth, doesn't he? (Sarcasm)

Basically, another worthless study.
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It's a lot to do with how they photograph you...

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Joan Foster

This "warm, fuzzy" stuff about Progressives is such a crock.

I'm a warm, fuzzy Mother myself. Suppose I feel so bad that my children don't have everything I THINK they deserve to have...that I bankrupt my husband..and we all end up in dire straights.

That's the Dem plan for this country. We're going to become Greece; our politicians who can afford it will fly out of country (like the Canadian premier) to get help.

Remember the compassionate 88? Selective and narrow "compassion", wasn't it? A stampede to judgment.

No common sense allowed.
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I wonder why they didn't do house races....
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Barbara Milkulski ?

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It's a lot to do with how they photograph you...


Isn't that photo with Palin that LTC posted - Palin's top aide who recently resigned? Think her name is Meg Stapleton.

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