Trial “Better than Men”: Gender Variation in Presentation Styles and Emotional Intensity in Courts of China

• In Event: New Methods in Political Communication II

Brief Overview

This paper studies how gender stereotype affects political communication in China. By applying a machine-learning algorithm to the audios of 1,400 criminal trials, we find female judges tend to be “colder” and more formal.

Authors

• Dong Yu, University of Iowa

• Yuehong Tai, University of Iowa