Recent political science research on the effects of core personality traits—the Big Five—
contributes to our understanding of how people interact with their political environments …

Openness to Experience is one of the 5 broad factors that subsume most personality traits.
Openness is usually considered an intrapsychic dimension, defined in terms of …

There is a growing consensus that online platforms have a systematic influence on the
democratic process. However, research beyond social media is limited. In this paper, we …

It has been argued that facets do not represent the bottom of the personality hierarchy—
even more specific personality characteristics, nuances, could be useful for describing and …

Previous research on personality traits and political attitudes has largely focused on the
direct relationships between traits and ideological self-placement. There are theoretical …

Although skeptics continue to doubt that most people are “ideological,” evidence suggests
that meaningful left‐right differences do exist and that they may be rooted in basic …

Personality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that
covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual ability, motivation and …

The fifth factor in lexical studies of trait adjectives is commonly interpreted as Intellect,
whereas the corresponding factor derived from questionnaire studies is typically identified …

According to previous research conducted mainly in the United States, psychological needs
pertaining to the management of uncertainty and threat predict right-wing conservatism …

Debates over redistribution, social insurance, and market regulation are central to American
politics. Why do some citizens prefer a large role for government in the economic life of the …