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 …

Voters evaluate politicians not just by what they say, but also how they say it, via facial
displays of emotions and vocal pitch. Candidate characteristics can shape how leaders use …

Many psychological studies have shown that facial appearance matters in the people we
select as leaders. An evolutionary-psychology approach suggests that facial cues serve as …

For decades, nonverbal communication scholars have employed manual coding as the
primary research methodology for systematic content analysis of nonverbal behaviors such …

The term “biopolitics” carries multiple, sometimes competing, meanings in political science.
When the term was first used in the United States in the late 1970s, it referred to an …

Emotional displays of politicians can be persuasive. According to prominent psychological
theories, we can easily “catch” the emotional displays of others through mimicry and …

Several empirical studies have linked political candidates' electoral success to their physical
appearance. We reexamine the effects of candidates' physical attractiveness by taking into …

This article provides advice on how to meet the practical challenges of experimental
methods within public management research. We focus on lab, field, and survey …

People read dominance, trustworthiness and competence into the faces of politicians but do
they also perceive such social qualities in other nonverbal cues? We transferred the body …

For both sophisticated and unsophisticated citizens alike, the feelings and cognitions that
political fi gures elicit can affect how favorably they are evaluated and add signifi cant …