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Beauty or the Beast? The Effects of Appearance, Personality, and Issue Information on Evaluations of Political Candidates

Thomas Lee Budesheim

University of Memphis

Stephen J. DePaola

University of Memphis

Two studies investigated the effects of image and issue information on evaluations of political candidates. The extent to which voters base their evaluations on stereotypic image information (i.e., candidates' physical attractiveness) and nonstereotypic image information (i.e., individuating personality descriptions of the candidates) was examined. Also of interest were the factors that lead to image-based, as opposed to issue-based, evaluations of the candidates. Results demonstrated that (a) physical appearance influenced evaluations even when individuating personality information was provided, (b) subjects' evaluations were less influenced by their agreement with the candidates' issue positions when image information was presented than when it was not, and (c) subjects' evaluations were less influenced by issue agreement when a candidate's image was evaluatively mixed than when it was evaluatively consistent.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 20, No. 4, 339-348 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167294204001
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