Study: Republican Women Look Feminine, Democratic Women Look Masculine

A study from psychologists Colleen Carpinella and Kerri Johnson published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Excerpted from the article at Buzzfeed:

In another experiment, Carpinella and Johnson used a computer program to measure how “sex-typical” the faces of male and female Representatives were, looking at characteristics like jaw shape, lip fullness, and cheekbone placement (they discounted things like hair, makeup, and jewelry). They found that Republican women were more likely to have stereotypically feminine faces — and the effect was more pronounced the more conservative their voting records were. The reverse was true for Democrats — the more liberal their voting records, the less traditionally feminine their faces. The study authors call this “the Michele Bachmann effect.”

(Source: BuzzFeed)

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