Personality and attitudes towards current political topics

Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts

“…Prior work has typically found no relationship between Agreeableness and overall ideology (e.g., Gosling, Rentfrow, and Swann 2003;Mehrabian 1996;Mondak and Halperin 2008;Riemann et al 1993). However, Carney et al (2008) do find Agreeableness to be weakly associated with conservatism in their two largest samples (N = 1,826 and N = 17,103).…”

“…Next, consider the trait of Openness (to Experience), which has consistently been associated with identifying as liberal (Carney et al 2008;Gosling, Rentfrow, and Swann 2003;Jost et al 2003;McCrae 1996;Mehrabian 1996;Mondak and Halperin 2008;Riemann et al 1993;Stenner 2005, ch. 6;Van Hiel, Kossowska, and Mervielde 2000;Van Hiel and Mervielde 2004) and left-party voting (Barbaranelli et al 2007;Caprara, Barbaranelli, and Zimbardo 1999;Caprara et al 2006;Rentfrow et al 2009;Schoen and Schumann 2007) in earlier research.…”

The intervening role of social worldviews in the relationship between the five‐factor model of personality and social attitudes

“…Whereas Butler (2000), Study 2), Heaven and Bucci (2001), Peterson et al (1997), Trapnell (1994) and Van Hiel and Mervielde (1996a) reported non-significant correlations, Caprara et al (1999), Riemann et al (1993), Duriez and Soenens (2006), and Van Hiel and Mervielde (1996b) obtained significant (and positive) relationships between Conscientiousness and right-wing beliefs. Most studies did not show significant relationships between Agreeableness and right-wing beliefs, but there are some indications that Agreeableness is related to conservatism in the economic domain (i.e.…”

“Elective Affinities”: On the Psychological Bases of Left–Right Differences

“…Thus, many conservatives today strive to repeal or otherwise replace the social security system created during the New Deal, undermine the separation of Church and State, eliminate welfare and affirmative action programs, overturn the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, and so on. In addition to flouting philosophical disputes originating JOST with Burke, Marx, and their contemporaries over the issue of social change, the position taken by Wildavsky (1989) and Greenberg and Jonas (2003) that leftists and rightists are equally desirous of change ignores a veritable mountain of psychological data documenting major differences between liberals (or leftists) and conservatives (or rightists) with respect to their degree of openness to novelty, innovation, stimulation, excitement, diversity, and change in general (Altemeyer, 1998;Amodio, Jost, Master, & Yee, 2007;Barnea & Schwartz, 1998;Carney, Jost, Gosling, & Potter, 2008;Chirumbolo, 2002;Ekehammar, Akrami, & Gylje, 2004;Feather, 1984;Gerber, Huber, Raso, & Ha, 2008;Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003;Jost et al, 2003aJost et al, , 2003bKemmelmeier, 2007;Kruglanski, 2004;Levin & Schalmo, 1974;McClosky & Chong, 1985;McCrae, 1996;Riemann, Grubich, Hempel, Mergl, & Richter, 1993;Rokeach, 1960;Sidanius, 1978;Stenner, 2005;Trapnell, 1994;Van Hiel & Mervielde, 2004;Wilson, 1973).…”