“…Others have found that these traits affect outcomes such as behavior in economic games (Ben-Ner, Kramera, and Levy 2008;Koole, Jager, and van den Berg 2001), political tolerance (Marcus et al 1995, ch. 8), job satisfaction (Hogan and Holland 2003;Salgado 1997), alcohol and tobacco consumption (Paunonen and Ashton 2001), and physical and mental health (Goodwin and Friedman 2006). Although the Big Five personality traits have only recently begun to 2 Cognitive ability is the only psychological trait that is more stable through the life cycle than the Big Five (Caspi, Roberts, and Shiner 2005, 466-67). receive attention in political science, existing evidence suggests that they are significant predictors of political outcomes such as ideology and turnout (Gerber et al 2010b;Mondak and Halperin 2008).…”