From: Science
We know better, so why can’t we stop making snap judgments based on appearance?
July 28, 2017
Science:
Imagine you are part of an experiment. You and your coparticipants are shown photographs of two individuals and are asked to choose who is more leader-like. Unbeknownst to you, the individuals in the photographs are real-life candidates vying for a seat in the U.S. Congress. Would it surprise you to learn that the average ratings of the participants in the experiment could reliably predict which candidate would go on to win the electoral contest?
In 2005, I pondered this very experiment, published in Science by psychologist Alexander Todorov and colleagues.
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