Double-Edged Sword of Mediated Visibility: How Visual Framing Undermines Congresswomen's Perceived Competence

arXiv:2609.31970 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Comments: 36 pages, 3 figures, plus 25-page online appendix (included). Under review

Code: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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• Commentary — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Loss Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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