TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - When Likeness Goes with Liking: The Case of Political Preference
JO  - Political psychology
A1  - Caprara, Gian Vittorio
A1  - Vecchione, Michele
A1  - Barbaranelli, Claudio
A1  - Fraley, R. Chris
SP  - 609
EP  - 632
VL  - 28
IS  - 5
N2  - Three studies show that people tend to vote for politicians (i.e., either Romano Prodi or Silvio Berlusconi in Italy or George W. Bush or John Kerry in the United States) whose traits they rate as being most similar to their own. People perceived higher similarity between themselves and political figures with respect to traits that were most distinctive of each platform and their respective leaders. These findings, while corroborating the similarity-attraction relationship, further attest to the role that personal characteristics of both voters and candidates play in orienting political preference.<p /> 
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SN  - 0162-895X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2007.00592.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -