One of the most reliable and impactful methods for enhancing a persuasive appeal is to
match an aspect of the proposal (ie, its content, source, or the setting in which it is delivered) …

Highlights•Followers infer leaders' dominance from appearance, behavior and policy
positions.•Preferences for dominant leaders are enhanced in contexts of …

The newly revised edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive
overview of the theory, research, and applications of nonverbal communication. Authored by …

The seventh edition of this field-leading textbook provides an accessible and rigorous
presentation of major theories of persuasion and their applications to a variety of real-world …

Recent research finds that political candidates and leaders with dominant, masculine
physical features are more preferred under conditions of conflict than of cooperation …

Two questions have motivated much of our research. What is the structure of social
judgments from faces and what is the perceptual basis of these judgments? Twelve years …

Existing research debates the extent to which feminine and masculine stereotypes affect
voters' impressions of female candidates. Current approaches identify how descriptions of …

This article reviews research contributions in political science and communication to the
topic of nonverbal communication and politics from 2005 to 2015. The review opens with …

The conceptualization and measurement of authoritarianism has involved important
difficulties. One was the failure to originally differentiate two distinct dimensions of …

One modality to estimate men's formidability and aggressive proclivities is their facial width-
to-height ratio (fWHR). Such inferences may further influence perceptions of men as fathers …