The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena

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Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes (2011, background): “Although scholars have devoted extensive attention to the relationships between Big Five personality traits and political attitudes and ideology, relatively little work has examined the relationships between these traits and political participation (see Gerber et al. 2011 for a review).”
Beyond Total Effects: Exploring the Interplay of Personality and Attitudes in Affecting Turnout in the 2009 German Federal Election (2013, background): “As prior research suggests, this hypothesis is borne out by evidence on Germany (Mößner 2005), but not on the U.S. (Gerber et al. 2011b).”
The Cognitive Revolution and the Political Psychology of Elite Decision Making (2013, background): “2 See for example Gerber et al. 2011.”
The Big Five Personality Traits and Attitudes towards Immigrants (2014, background): “…(Hibbing, Ritchie, and Anderson 2011), participation in protest activities (Opp and Brandstätter 2010), voter turnout and political participation (Gerber et al. 2011b; Mattila et al. 2011; Mondak and Halperin 2008), as well as a wide range of political attitudes and behaviours (Gerber et al.…”
Attitudes Toward Immigration: The Role of Personal Predispositions (2016, methodology): “Consequently, we do not have to rely on, for example, self-reported interpretations of situational stimuli, which may be affected by personality traits as noted by Gerber et al. (2011).”