title: Judging political affiliation from faces of UK MPs.
abstract: Subjects were shown photographs of UK MPs' faces and asked to judge their political affiliations. Participants were unable to correctly distinguish between Conservative and Labour politicians. However, their responses were used to create computer-generated idealised faces representative of each party, which independent evaluators could correctly identify. These faces give an indication of the mental images we might reference when imagining MPs from the two main UK political parties.
authors: Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. thomas.roberts.10@ucl.ac.uk
authors: Tom
authors: T
authors: Roberts
authors: Harry
authors: H
authors: Griffin
authors: Peter W
authors: PW
authors: McOwan
authors: Alan
authors: A
authors: Johnston
mesh_terms: D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D011057:Politics; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping; D006113:United Kingdom