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Political Attitudes Bias the Mental Representation of a Presidential Candidate's Face

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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 503-510

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613510717

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attitudes; construal; face perception; social perception; social cognition

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Using a technique known as reverse-correlation image classification, we demonstrated that the face of Mitt Romney as represented in people's minds varies as a function of their attitudes toward Mitt Romney. Our findings provide evidence that attitudes bias how people see something as concrete and well learned as the face of a political candidate during an election. Practically, our findings imply that citizens may not merely interpret political information about a candidate to fit their opinion, but also may construct a political world in which they literally see candidates differently.

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