Political leadership, a quasi-experimental study of Peruvian voters’ emotional reaction and visual attention to political humor

Luis Camilo Ortigueira-Sánchez () and Ana Lucía Cárdenas-Egúsquiza ()
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Luis Camilo Ortigueira-Sánchez: Universidad del Pacífico
Ana Lucía Cárdenas-Egúsquiza: Aarhus University

International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, 2022, vol. 19, issue 1, No 6, 126 pages

Abstract: Abstract Political humor is a wise communicative strategy for politicians to use. However, previous research has not linked politicians’ use of political humor with voter’s emotional reaction and visual attention. Two experiments were conducted using facial expression analysis and eye-tracking technology to record the emotional reaction and visual attention of participants while watching one of the two presidential debates broadcast during the second round of the 2016 presidential election campaign in Peru. Results showed that voters’ educational level, candidates’ facial expressions while expressing the political humor, the type of camera shot displayed and the debate’s audience laughs influence voter’s positive emotional reaction and visual attention to instances of political humor.

Keywords: Political humor; Eye-tracking; Voter emotions; Nonverbal behavior; Presidential campaign; Peru; Presidential candidates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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