26.01.2012                      02.Schwat. 5772

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'Baby-faced Palestinian leaders win Israeli support'

Hebrew U study finds Palestinian political leaders who have “baby faces” are more trusted by Israeli Jews in peace talks.

It might be one reason among many why PLO leader Yasser Arafat won no sympathy or trust from the average Israeli Jew. Palestinian political leaders who have “baby faces” are more trusted by Israeli Jews in peace negotiations than those than those with older, lined faces, according to new research by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
By subtly altering fictional politicians’ faces, Prof. Ifat Maoz of the university’s Department of Communication and Journalism studied the extent to which minor changes in appearance affect people’s judgment of politicians from the opposing side of a conflict and their peace proposals….