Porciello et al. 1 Splendors and Miseries of political leaders reflected 1 in the eyes of their electors 2 Giuseppina Porciello 1,2 *, Marco Tullio Liuzza 1,2 , Ilaria Minio-Paluello 1,2 , Gian Vittorio Caprara 1 and Salvatore Maria 3 Aglioti 1,2 * 4 5 1 Department of Psychology, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy. 6 2 Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy. 7 8 9 10 Running title: The fall of political leaders reflected in voters’ gaze-following behaviour 11 12 13 * Corresponding Authors: 14 Giuseppina Porciello or Salvatore M. Aglioti, 15 Department of Psychology, 16 Sapienza, University of Rome 17 Via dei Marsi, 78 18 00185 Rome, Italy 19 Phone number: +39-6-44427601 20 Fax-simile: +39-6-49917635 21 Email: giuseppina.porciello@uniroma1.it or salvatoremaria.aglioti@uniroma1.it 22 23 24 25 26 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 27 S.M.A. is supported by EU Information and Communication Technologies Grant (VERE project, FP7-ICT-2009-5, 28 Prot. Num. 257695) and Italian Ministry of Health (RF-2010-2312912); I.M.P. by the Italian Ministry of Health, (GR- 29 2009-1607360). 30 31 32 33 34 35 Revised Manuscript Click here to download Manuscript Porciello et al., revised MS.doc Click here to view linked References 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65