Pretty in Politics: The Gendered Electoral Consequences of Physical Attractiveness

• In Event: JSS 5
  In JSS Session: Experiments in Gender and Politics

Brief Overview

Does being physically attractive benefit men and women equally? We hypothesize that attractiveness creates different heuristics for men and women and aim to show that these heuristics translate into different electoral benefits.

Author

• Lauren M Chojnacki, Vanderbilt University