Summary: <p>How democracy is undermined by the psychology of attractiveness: we discover why good looking candidates have an advantage come polling day, either because their beauty distracts from their extreme policies, or (if they're very lucky) because their constituents are ill.</p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://archive.org/download/pap-2015-03-10/pap-2015-03-10.mp3">Download the MP3</a></p><p><b>Rate me!</b><br> Rate, review, or listen <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">in iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a><br> </p><p><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdY0p-DsQlA/VO0T7GQ4j0I/AAAAAAAABew/qfGLWdUDioo/s2048-Ic42/poster.jpg"><br> </p><p><i>Remember David Cameron's allegedly airbrushed poster from 2010? Well, he might have been onto something...</i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b></p><p>Herrmann, M., & Shikano, S. (in press). Attractiveness and facial competence bias face-based inferences of candidate ideology. <span style="font-style: italic;">Political Psychology</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/">Read summary</a></p><p>Zebrowitz, L. A., Franklin, R. G., & Palumbo, R. (2015). Ailing voters advance attractive congressional candidates. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolutionary Psychology, 13</span>(1), 16-28. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/">Read summary</a></p>
