Listen to My Voice and Hear My Policy: Persistence of the Voice-Pitch Bias Against Policy Differences in Laboratory Elections

• In Event: Gender and Race in Political Behavior

Brief Overview

We experimentally analyse how the electoral advantage a lower voice-pitch infers upon candidates (the so-called voice-pitch bias) interacts with the candidate’s policy position. We find that candidate gender has a strong effect on this relationship.

Authors

• Ceren Cinar, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Ozgur Kibris