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ArticlePersonality & social psychology bulletin2025

Looking Competent Does Not Appeal to All Voters Equally: The Role of Social Class and Politicians' Facial Appearance for Voting Likelihood.

Fabienne Unkelbach, Tatjana Brütting, Nina Schilling, Michaela Wänke

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Article in Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Fabienne UnkelbachUniversity of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9107-3533
Tatjana BrüttingZeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Nina SchillingUniversity of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
Michaela WänkeUniversity of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Voters generally value competence in politicians. Four studies, all conducted in Germany, show that this is especially pronounced in people of higher compared with lower social class. The first study, with a representative sample (

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PoliticsSocial ClassAdolescentAdultFacial RecognitionFemaleGermanyHumansMaleMiddle AgedSelf ConceptSocial PerceptionVotingYoung Adultappearance-based politicsbig twopolitical psychologyself-conceptvoting behavior

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PMID37415550
PMCPMC11616214

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