Voting for a Male Warrior or Female Peacekeeper? Testing the Evolutionary Contingency Hypothesis in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections

The present research replicates and extends previous literature on the evolutionary contingency hypothesis of leadership emergence. Using artificially masculinized versus feminized versions of the faces of the candidates for the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, we demonstrated that different contex...

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Main Authors: Allen Grabo, Mark van Vugt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-06-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704918773267