Personality profiles of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump: Fooled by your own politics

Wright, Joshua D.; Tomlinson, Monica F.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.02.019

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“…The profile of experts can, potentially, alter their assessments (Mart ınez i Coma and Van Ham 2015; Steenbergen and Marks 2007;Wright and Tomlinson 2018). To assess the extent of these profile effects, we ran a series of models where the experts' evaluations (that is, how they evaluated the personality profile of the candidates) were regressed on their profile.…”

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The personality of populists: provocateurs, charismatic leaders, or drunken dinner guests?

Nai

Coma

2019

West European Politics

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The 'populist phenomenon' has received a lot of attention in recent years. Yet little is known about the populists themselves: who are they? They are often described as bad-mannered provocateurs disrupting the political game, but also as charismatic leaders able to persuade and motivate. Can a populist 'style' or 'personality' be identified? This article assesses to what extent populists score differently from 'mainstream' politicians on established personality inventories. Using a new dataset based on expert ratings for 152 candidates (including 33 populists) having competed in 73 elections worldwide, it is found that populists score lower on agreeableness, emotional stability and conscientiousness. At the same time, populists score higher on extraversion, narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. These results have important implications for the study of the success of populists in contemporary democracies and beyond.

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The personality of populists: provocateurs, charismatic leaders, or drunken dinner guests?

Nai

Coma

2019

West European Politics

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“…Interest in politicians' personality has increased substantially over the last few years, especially after the 2016 election of Donald Trump in the US (Nai & Maier, 2018;Visser et al, 2016;Wright & Tomlinson, 2018). In politicians' personality studies, scholars have relied on external ratings of personality, which may be subject to a number of-mainly self-or (political) ingroup-serving-biases.…”

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“…The evaluative bias pertains to the tendency of voters to attribute positively evaluated traits to their preferred politician. For instance, Wright and Tomlinson (2018) showed strong relations between political preference of raters, including political experts, and their personality ratings of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Except for extraversion, raters scored their preferred candidate higher than their non-preferred candidate on Big Five agreeableness, emotional stability, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.…”

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“…Politics is not only defined by the clash of ideas, but-more often-by the clash of personalities. As a result, the assessment of politicians' personality has not only become a public topic of interest, but also a common scientific practice (Nai & Maier, 2018;Schumacher & Zettler, 2019;Visser, Book, & Volk, 2016;Wright & Tomlinson, 2018). There are reasons to suspect, however, that the perception of politicians' personality suffers from several biases.…”

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Voters rating politicians' personality: Evaluative biases and assumed similarity on honesty-humility and openness to experience

Vries

Prooijen

2019

Personality and Individual Differences

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The recent rise in controversial politicians has garnered substantial interest in the assessment of their personality. Observer ratings of politicians' personality, however, may suffer from evaluative and value-related biases. Evaluative biases are likely to differentially affect personality ratings of preferred and non-preferred politicians, whereas value-related biases are likely to affect ratings of honesty-humility and openness to experience of preferred politicians in line with the self-based heuristic or assumed similarity effect. In a stratified sample (final N = 203) of the Dutch population, respondents/voters provided self-ratings and observer ratings of the political leaders of the seven largest political parties on the HEXACO Simplified Personality Inventory (HEXACO-SPI). Findings showed evaluative biases on honestyhumility, extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. Furthermore, observer ratings of politicians were generally lower than self-ratings on honesty-humility and higher on extraversion, suggesting high perceived politicians' narcissism. Findings on the value-related bias showed that assumed similarity was higher for honesty-humility and openness to experience among politicians of a preferred party than among politicians of non-preferred parties. Additionally, assumed similarity effects were also present for emotionality among preferred politicians and for extraversion and conscientiousness among both preferred and non-preferred politicians, suggesting a self-based prototypicality effect.

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“…Alessandro Nai and Jürgen Maier () replicated these findings surveying a pool of national and international experts on U.S. politics. Although surveys have shown that many U.S. voters also rate Trump as having low levels of honesty and agreeableness, their assessments do typically differ depending on their political preferences (Wright and Tomlinson ).…”

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Hard‐Core Toughie: Donald Trump’s Negotiations for the United States Presidency

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Volkema²

2019

Negotiation Journal

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This paper examines the negotiation tactics employed by Donald Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign. Drawing on data from multiple sources (interviews, debates, articles, books), our analysis begins with a brief overview of Trump’s personality and philosophy, which offers a basis for understanding his general negotiating approach. We then highlight six competitive tactics and four principles of persuasion that Trump employs, with specific examples of how he used them during the campaign with his primary negotiating counterparts – the other candidates, the Republican Party, the press corps, and the American electorate. Finally, we discuss some of the implications of his negotiating approach and preferred tactics in dealing with domestic and international issues as president of the United States.

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Personality profiles of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump: Fooled by your own politics

Cited by 25 publications

References 10 publications

The personality of populists: provocateurs, charismatic leaders, or drunken dinner guests?

The personality of populists: provocateurs, charismatic leaders, or drunken dinner guests?

Voters rating politicians' personality: Evaluative biases and assumed similarity on honesty-humility and openness to experience

Hard‐Core Toughie: Donald Trump’s Negotiations for the United States Presidency

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