What game do you want to win? It depends on the size of your chin!

Some people are famous for wearing their hearts on their sleeves. But is it possible to deduce someone’s political leanings by looking at their face? Scientists say yes.

Researchers suggest that the size of your chin could predict how you will vote in the next national election.

They found that AI software could guess with “significant accuracy” an individual’s political orientation from just a photograph of their face.

The technology was also able to accurately predict the political affiliation of 1,000 UK politicians from similar images.

Researchers at Stanford University in the United States found that people with more liberal views had smaller lower faces and chins. Those who tended to vote conservative had larger lower faces and squarer jaws.

The photographs of the 600 volunteers were “neutral,” meaning that all individuals wore black T-shirts, removed makeup or facial hair, and had their hair tied back so predictions could be made without any reference to personal style. or other preferences that might have offered clues.

Predictions were accurate regardless of age, sex, race, and location. “A single image of a neutral face reveals political orientation as accurately as job interviews reveal job success or alcohol drives aggression,” the researchers said.

They added that their results had “critical implications for the privacy and regulation of facial recognition technology” and urged policymakers to recognize the “potential risks.”

The study suggests that faces, and how they are perceived by others, can shape behavior and psychological traits.

Describing it as a “self-fulfilling prophecy effect,” the researchers suggest that people with larger jaws are often perceived as “more socially dominant, a trait associated with political conservatism” and that, over time, it could lead them to become in that. and vote to the political right.

They also suggest that life experiences equally have a subtle effect on the face.

“Liberals, for example, tend to smile more intensely and genuinely, which over time leaves traces in wrinkle patterns,” states the study, published in the journal American Psychologist.

“Conservatives tend to be more self-disciplined and therefore healthier, consume less alcohol and tobacco and have a better diet, which alters facial fat distribution and skin health.”