Snap Judgments: Predicting Politician Competence from Photos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Casey
Keyword(s):  
Snap Judgments

scholarly journals Looking Like a Winner: Candidate Appearance and Electoral Success in New Democracies

2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chappell Lawson ◽  
Gabriel S. Lenz ◽  
Andy Baker ◽  
Michael Myers
Keyword(s):  
Racial Differences ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Snap Judgments

A flurry of recent studies indicates that candidates who simply look more capable or attractive are more likely to win elections. In this article, the authors investigate whether voters' snap judgments of appearance travel across cultures and whether they influence elections in new democracies. They show unlabeled, black-and-white pictures of Mexican and Brazilian candidates' faces to subjects living in America and India, asking them which candidates would be better elected officials. Despite cultural, ethnic, and racial differences, Americans and Indians agree about which candidates are superficially appealing (correlations ranging from .70 to .87). Moreover, these superficial judgments appear to have a profound influence on Mexican and Brazilian voters, as the American and Indian judgments predict actual election returns with surprising accuracy. These effects, the results also suggest, may depend on the rules of the electoral game, with institutions exacerbating or mitigating the effects of appearance.

scholarly journals SNAP judgments into the digital age: Reporting on food stamps varies significantly with time, publication type, and political leaning

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. e0229180
Author(s):  
Benjamin W. Chrisinger ◽  
Eliza W. Kinsey ◽  
Ellie Pavlick ◽  
Chris Callison-Burch
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Food Stamps ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Snap Judgments

Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography

African Arts ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-93
Author(s):  
Erin Haney ◽  
Erika Nimis
Keyword(s):  
Snap Judgments

Snap Judgments: How Students Search the Web for Their Rights to Photograph in Public

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-273
Author(s):  
Robin Hoecker ◽  
Eszter Hargittai
Keyword(s):  
The Web ◽  
Snap Judgments

scholarly journals SNAP judgments: A small N acceptability paradigm (SNAP) for linguistic acceptability judgments: Online Appendices

Language ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. s1-s14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Mahowald ◽  
Peter Graff ◽  
Jeremy Hartman ◽  
Edward Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Small N ◽  
Acceptability Judgments ◽  
Snap Judgments

scholarly journals Evaluating the Benefits of Conscious and Unconscious Thought in Complex Decision Making

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlène Abadie ◽  
Laurent Waroquier
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Problem ◽  
Multiple Criteria ◽  
Unconscious Thought ◽  
Unconscious Processing ◽  
Conscious Thought ◽  
Complex Decision Making ◽  
Complex Decision ◽  
The Right ◽  
Snap Judgments

Decision-making research reports mixed findings about the best way to make complex decisions involving multiple criteria. While some researchers emphasize the importance of conscious thought to make good decisions, others encourage people to stop thinking and trust their snap judgments. Still others recommend a distracting activity prior to making a choice, assuming that unconscious processing of the decision problem occurs during distraction. We review studies comparing these three decision modes. We show that conscious deliberation helps people to make good decisions when people have in mind precise verbatim information about the exact features of each alternatives. By contrast, a distraction period is more useful when meaning-based gist representations of the alternatives are accessible. Finally, while a period of distraction or deliberation is beneficial for decision making under certain conditions, to blindly follow one’s gut feeling is never the right solution.

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