Monday, October 8th, 2012
Stephan: I have maintained for some years that you can tell the political leanings of most people on television just by looking at them with the sound turned off. In my view, for example, Republican women all tend to look like they have been lacquered after plastic surgery. The academic research in support of this view is now being published.
They’re calling it the Michele Bachmann effect. And no, it’s not the Minnesota congresswoman’s crusade to ban falafel from public schools. It refers to the relationship between a woman’s politics and her face.
Women politicians with ‘stereotypical feminine facial features
