Can a beautiful smile win the vote?

Masch, Lena; Gaßner, Anna; Rosar, Ulrich

doi:10.1017/pls.2021.17

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“…Politicians may strategically use smiles to influence their voters’ behavior [ 13 , 14 , 57 ]. However, a critical question emerges: does reading about a politicians’ smile spontaneously evoke nuanced smile reactions, and do these reactions differ depending on whether readers share the same or opposing political orientation?…”

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“…Smiles are one of the main channels through which political leaders tend to induce feelings of happiness, confidence, and reassurance in others to the aim of increasing positive evaluations, obtaining consensus and expanding electoral support [ 13 , 14 ]. However, far from being simple readouts of positive affect, smiles have been shown to signal a wide range of socially relevant information and to regulate social interactions in a highly nuanced fashion [ 10 , 15 ].…”

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Reading of ingroup politicians’ smiles triggers smiling in the corner of one’s eyes

Fino,

Menegatti,

Avenanti

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Spontaneous smiles in response to politicians can serve as an implicit barometer for gauging electorate preferences. However, it is unclear whether a subtle Duchenne smile–an authentic expression involving the coactivation of the zygomaticus major (ZM) and orbicularis oculi (OO) muscles–would be elicited while reading about a favored politician smiling, indicating a more positive disposition and political endorsement. From an embodied simulation perspective, we investigated whether written descriptions of a politician’s smile would trigger morphologically different smiles in readers depending on shared or opposing political orientation. In a controlled reading task in the laboratory, participants were presented with subject-verb phrases describing left and right-wing politicians smiling or frowning. Concurrently, their facial muscular reactions were measured via electromyography (EMG) recording at three facial muscles: the ZM and OO, coactive during Duchenne smiles, and the corrugator supercilii (CS) involved in frowning. We found that participants responded with a Duchenne smile detected at the ZM and OO facial muscles when exposed to portrayals of smiling politicians of same political orientation and reported more positive emotions towards these latter. In contrast, when reading about outgroup politicians smiling, there was a weaker activation of the ZM muscle and no activation of the OO muscle, suggesting a weak non-Duchenne smile, while emotions reported towards outgroup politicians were significantly more negative. Also, a more enhanced frown response in the CS was found for ingroup compared to outgroup politicians’ frown expressions. Present findings suggest that a politician’s smile may go a long way to influence electorates through both non-verbal and verbal pathways. They add another layer to our understanding of how language and social information shape embodied effects in a highly nuanced manner. Implications for verbal communication in the political context are discussed.

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Reading of ingroup politicians’ smiles triggers smiling in the corner of one’s eyes

Fino,

Menegatti,

Avenanti

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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“…The use of "off-the-shelf" image taggers, rather than human coders or algorithms trained by the researchers themselves, is relatively new within the domain of social science (see Boussalis et al, 2021;Masch et al, 2021). The use of pre-trained models such as these can limit researchers to features of images that are offered by the service in question (Webb Williams et al, 2020).…”

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Facing the Competition: Gender Differences in Facial Emotion and Prominence in Visual News Coverage of Democratic Presidential Primary Candidates

Gruszczynski

Brown

Pierce

et al. 2022

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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This study considered the impact of gender on visual coverage of the top 12 candidates in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary. Using Microsoft Azure’s Face API, we analyzed 9,529 still images from 43 mainstream news sources for facial emotion (happiness, anger, neutrality) and prominence (close-up, medium, long shots). We found visual evidence for an age-old narrative that undermines confidence in women’s leadership fitness: They were presented as emotionally less composed than men. Although we found no gender differences for facial prominence per se, its interaction with facial emotion gave nuance to gender differences in visual coverage of leadership performances.

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“…Это имеет особое значение для пациентов с дефектами кожи лица -важнейшего элемента человеческой коммуникации [14,40,43], в том числе, в контексте нового социально-психологического феномена, получившего название «лукизм» и отражающего зависимость социальной успешности человека от его внешнего вида [11,16,33,36,38].…”

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Attitude to themselves and to the time perspective of women with cosmetic problems of their facial skin

Bagnenko

2024

V.M. BEKHTEREV REVIEW OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Introduction. The central place in the system of personality relations is occupied by the attitude towards oneself. Its violations are the main link in the development of neurotic disorders and adaptation disorders. There was proved the connection between the attitude to the time perspective and the emotional-affective status, one of the indicators of which is the attitude towards oneself. In this regard, the purpose of the work was to study the attitude towards onуself and to the personal perspective of the patients of a cosmetological clinic with different levels of mental adaptation.Materials and methods. Patients of a cosmetological clinic with different level of mental adaptation detected using the «Test of neuropsychic adaptation» (NPA), were compared in terms of self-attitude and self-esteem studied using the author’s structured interview and S.Ya.Rubinstein’s technique (1999); the same groups were compared accordind to the indicators of the technique of «Semantic time differential» (STD) characterizing the attitude of a person to the time perspective [10]. The were used statistical methods of data analysis (Pearson χ2 and ANOVA, included in the statistical packages SPSS v. 25.0).Results. Among patients of the cosmetological clinic 54,1% have a reduced level of mental adaptation; 45,9% of women have no significant adaptation disorders. Groups of women with a reduced and nonreduced level of mental adaptation differ in the general indicator NPA (М= - 1,16+0,15, М=3,20+0,11 p=0,000), practically do not differ in socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, but statistically significantly differ in all studied psychological characteristics: self-esteem, attitude towards oneself as a person, attitude towards one’s psychical «Ego», confidence in one’s external attractiveness, attitude towards the present, pas, and future. It is concluded that a decrease in the level of mental adaptation in a patient of cosmetological clinic is associated not only with a change in the system of significant personality relationships, but also due to violations of the emotional-affective sphere.Conclusion. Prospects of research related to the study of the dynamics of self-esteem of attitude towards oneself and the perception of a time perspective in the process of cosmetological correction of facial skin defects, as well as the structure of the personality of women seeking cosmetic help.

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Can a beautiful smile win the vote?

Cited by 16 publications

References 49 publications

Reading of ingroup politicians’ smiles triggers smiling in the corner of one’s eyes

Reading of ingroup politicians’ smiles triggers smiling in the corner of one’s eyes

Facing the Competition: Gender Differences in Facial Emotion and Prominence in Visual News Coverage of Democratic Presidential Primary Candidates

Attitude to themselves and to the time perspective of women with cosmetic problems of their facial skin

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