Personality Profiles of Political Elites

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ID5802028
AuthorsDavid G Winter (0000-0002-6490-7467, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Leonie Huddy (0000-0003-1313-625X)
Year2013
Pages986
Publication date2013-09-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Oxford Handbook Of Political Psychology (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199760107.013.0014
OpenAlexW2713191260
ISBN9780199760107
Open LibraryOL26177693M
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Personality can be understood as including four distinct elements: demographic characteristics and other embodied social contexts, traits, cognitions and beliefs, and implicit motives. Because political leaders and elite groups are not available for direct assessment, measuring their personalities usually requires indirect methods. This chapter reviews a variety of such at-a-distance methods for measuring the elements of personality, citing landmark studies of each: psychobiography, theory-based ratings and rating scales, and content analysis of speeches, interviews, documents, and other text material. Multivariate ways of combining or integrating the separate personality elements are also discussed. Finally, attention is given to the circumstances under which leaders' personalities are relevant to outcomes, and the opportunities, perils, and limits of predicting political behavior from personality

Big Five personality traits · Elite · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Personality · Personality psychology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Comportement politique · Democratie · Manuels · Political psychology · Prise de décision (Politique) · Prise de décision (Relations humaines) · Relations internationales · Sciences politiques

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