The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind

By D. Carney, John T. Jost, Samuel D. Gosling, J. Potter. 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Getting Liberals and Conservatives to Go Green: Political Ideology and Congruent Appeals (2013, neutral): “to Carney et al. (2008), both conservatives and liberals show”
The marketplace of ideology: “Elective affinities” in political psychology and their implications for consumer behavior (2017, methodology): “At the level of personality traits, we have seen that conservatives are higher in conscientiousness, whereas liberals are higher in openness to new experiences (Carney et al., 2008).”
Tracing the threads: How five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes (2012, background): “…it is still unclear why a person chooses one ideological ‘‘team’’ over another, and psychological research is just beginning to examine the personality (Carney et al., 2008), physiological (Oxley et al., 2008) and genetic (Alford, Funk, & Hibbing, 2005) traits that may predispose individuals…”
Uses and Abuses of Ideology in Political Psychology (2020, background): “Political conservatism satisfies needs caused by uncertainty and threats (see their Figure 1)—stable individual differences expressed distinctly in everyday interactions and lifestyles (Carney et al., 2008; Jost, 2017b; Jost et al., 2008).”
Understanding the Political Ideology of Legislators from Social Media Images (2019, background): “Differences between image elements in each of these photos also correspond to work on the “Big Five” personality differences discovered between liberals and conservatives (Carney et al., 2008).”
Personality Traits and the Consumption of Political Information (2011, background): “Conscientiousness is strongly associated with conservatism while Openness is strongly associated with liberalism (Carney et al., 2008; Gerber et al., 2010b; Gosling et al., 2003; Mondak & Halperin, 2008).”
The Big Five Personality Traits and Attitudes towards Immigrants (2014, background): “…that personality, as conceptualised by the Big Five model, influences attitudes towards social and economic issues (Gerber et al. 2010), ideology (Carney et al. 2008; Jost, Nosek, and Gosling 2008; Jost 2006), political discussion (Hibbing, Ritchie, and Anderson 2011), participation in protest…”
Can Gender-Fair Language Reduce Gender Stereotyping and Discrimination? (2016, background): “…on attitudes toward gender arrangements (Jost and Kay, 2005; Carney et al., 2008), for conservative political attitudes are associated both with lesser openness for novelty (Carney et al., 2008) and with stronger support for traditional gender arrangements (Jost et al., 2003, 2008; Hoyt, 2012).”
Understanding the Determinants of Political Ideology: Implications of Structural Complexity (2014, positive): “…also appears to be a robust relationship between political conservatism and personality traits such as openness to experience and conscientiousness (Carney, Jost, Gosling, & Potter, 2008; Gerber, Huber, Doherty, Dowling, & Ha, 2010; McCrae, 1996; Mondak, 2010; Thorisdottir, Jost, Liviatan, &…”
Political contributions and analyst behavior (2015, positive): “Furthermore, a conservative individual has a conservative psychological inclination (Carney et al. 2008; Jost et al. 2003).”