Facial recognition technology and human raters can predict political orientation from images of expressionless faces even when controlling for demographics and self-presentation

no code implementations • 28 Mar 2023 • Michal Kosinski, Poruz Khambatta, Yilun Wang

Moreover, the associations between facial appearance and political orientation seem to generalize beyond our sample: The predictive model derived from standardized images (while controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity) could predict political orientation (r=. 13) from naturalistic images of 3, 401 politicians from the U. S., UK, and Canada.