Replication Data for "The Politics of Beauty: The Effects of Partisan Bias on Physical Attractiveness" (doi:10.7910/DVN/XIPZQT)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for "The Politics of Beauty: The Effects of Partisan Bias on Physical Attractiveness"

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/XIPZQT

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2016-03-29

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Nicholson, Stephen; Coe, Chelsea; Emory, Jason; Song, Anna, 2016, "Replication Data for "The Politics of Beauty: The Effects of Partisan Bias on Physical Attractiveness"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XIPZQT, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:GxYZ946HjWBCwp3H1kJhUw== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for "The Politics of Beauty: The Effects of Partisan Bias on Physical Attractiveness"

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/XIPZQT

Authoring Entity:

Nicholson, Stephen (UC Merced)

Coe, Chelsea (UC Merced)

Emory, Jason (UC Merced)

Song, Anna (UC Merced)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Coe, Chelsea

Depositor:

Coe, Chelsea

Date of Deposit:

2016-03-29

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XIPZQT

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, attractiveness, affective polarization, experiment

Abstract:

Abstract: Does politics cause people to be perceived as more or less attractive? As a type of social identity, party identifiers often exhibit in-group bias, positively evaluating members of their own party and, especially under conditions of competition, negatively evaluating out-party members. The current experiment tests whether political in-party and out-party status affects perceptions of the physical attractiveness of target persons. In a nationally representative internet sample of U.S. adults during the 2012 presidential election, we presented participants with photos of individuals and varied information about their presidential candidate preference. Results indicate that partisans, regardless of gender, rate target individuals as less attractive if they hold a dissimilar candidate preference. Female partisans, however, were more likely to rate target persons as more physically attractive when they held a similar candidate preference whereas no such effect was found for male partisans.

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Sources Statement

Data Access

Notes:

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f2797849

File: POB_ReplicationData.tab

  • Number of cases: 1000

  • No. of variables per record: 14

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:6:GxYZ946HjWBCwp3H1kJhUw==

Stata dataset

Variable Description

List of Variables:
  • weight - Team weights
  • conditions - Treatment Groups
  • mancheck - Manipulation Check
  • pid7 - 7 point Party ID
  • pid3 - 3 point party ID
  • attractrate - Attractiveness Rating - Dependent Variable
  • pid2 - Republican vs Democrat
  • gender - Gender
  • recall - Recall/Correctness of Manipulation Check
  • PR - Party Registration
  • birthyr - In what year were you born?
  • educ - Education
  • race - Race
  • ideo5 - Ideology

Variables

Team weights

f2797849 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0902469959513022; Max. 8.0004918246675; StDev 1.1071027068779808; Mean 0.9999999999999999; Valid 1000.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:hK4+/m3MXCp3lYcbKN2Y2A==

Treatment Groups

f2797849 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

1.

Version A - Neutral

2.

Version B - Obama

3.

Version C - Romney

8.

Skipped

9.

Not Asked

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.8180098655518364; Valid 1000.0; Mean 2.0230000000000006; Min. 1.0; Max. 3.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:WjNpbhahe230FV5jzhASrg==

Manipulation Check

f2797849 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

8.

Skipped

2.

Democrat

9.

Not Asked

3.

Independent

1.

Republican

4.

Don't know

Summary Statistics: Min. 1.0; Valid 999.0; Mean 2.5005005005005003; StDev 1.1851408639839927; Max. 4.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:b5f4AhZGVxXGTR7W/WTMew==

7 point Party ID

f2797849 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

98.

Skipped

99.

Not Asked

4.

Independent

5.

Lean Republican

3.

Lean Democrat

8.

Not sure

2.

Not very strong Democrat

1.

Strong Democrat

7.

Strong Republican

6.

Not very strong Republican

Summary Statistics: Valid 985.0; StDev 2.318294478830972; Min. 1.0; Max. 8.0; Mean 3.8629441624365484

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:UZWtsnsGaAW+PU1hJFHZMw==

3 point party ID

f2797849 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

5.

Not sure

9.

Not Asked

2.

Republican

1.

Democrat

4.

Other

3.

Independent

8.

Skipped

Summary Statistics: Min. 1.0; Valid 1000.0; Mean 2.1339999999999995; StDev 1.1230784947212293; Max. 5.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:QfxeydJEyNN2CD2YcI5eBQ==

Attractiveness Rating - Dependent Variable

f2797849 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

6.

Moderately attractive

4.

Neither attractive nor unattractive

1.

Extremely unattractive

3.

Slightly unattractive

5.

Slightly attractive

2.

Moderately unattractive

7.

Extremely attractive

Summary Statistics: Mean 4.990981963927855; Min. 1.0; Max. 7.0; Valid 998.0; StDev 1.2914807801480572

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:TNjM8tAmzxd3JogXC7SKFA==

Republican vs Democrat

f2797849 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.45401629802095506; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; Valid 859.0; StDev 0.49817106498719377;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:QBqUCC1RGrW6RkHOS8GDHA==

Gender

f2797849 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1000.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.5379999999999959; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.49880337288836246

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:3qfL5K3EUQuvaWhapD8kQg==

Recall/Correctness of Manipulation Check

f2797849 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.4687309320308996; Max. 1.0; Valid 999.0; Mean 0.6746746746746747; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:3wXBbZ/gDgtman2DY1ZkHw==

Party Registration

f2797849 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Valid 660.0; StDev 0.4981665007904229; Mean 0.45303030303030295; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:leF9vfIT1Yy63pEpEAKNmw==

In what year were you born?

f2797849 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 16.37423939350209; Min. 1922.0; Mean 1960.48; Max. 1994.0; Valid 1000.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:7FUr7bTBT0iJ0LjUZV0WHw==

Education

f2797849 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 3.648999999999999; Max. 6.0; Min. 1.0; Valid 1000.0; StDev 1.4933281719130083

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:jqxoeCHHyPCI1SXOV59+vg==

Race

f2797849 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 1.618; Valid 1000.0; StDev 1.3136977589239531; Min. 1.0; Max. 8.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:qMsKkSS0f4L0N0k/Gm2k2Q==

Ideology

f2797849 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 1.0; StDev 1.3302513178225353; Mean 3.351000000000001; Valid 1000.0; Max. 6.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:EXNG86CvheUKRKMfyWsRUw==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

POB_Codebook.pdf

Text:

Codebook

Notes:

application/pdf

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

POB_ReplicationDoFile.do

Text:

Stata do file

Notes:

application/x-stata-syntax