📋 The Face of Political Choice

Psychology, and science in general, sometimes shows us things that we would never expect to be true and that we may have a hard time accepting. Take research into politics as an example. We tend to assume that when someone votes in an election, while they might be swayed somewhat by emotional factors, they at least have conscious reasons to vote as they do, that voting is a deliberate political act and not a reflection of automatic psychological forces causing them to vote one way or another. That this may not be true in many, many cases is the result of a line of research conducted in recent years concerning people’s actual voting behavior. Read the following summary of this research and judge for yourself.

The hidden ways that faces shape politics

George Washington knew it. He was particularly conscious of his forehead, which he believed would look better if it was even bigger. For maximum emphasis he’d pull his hair back into a tight ponytail – then finish the powerful, masculine look with ringlets of curls and a ribbon.