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

By A. Gerber, G. Huber, D. Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Shang E. Ha. American Political Science Review, 2010

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Attitudes Toward Immigration: The Role of Personal Predispositions (2016, background): “Recent research has emphasized how personality traits influence people’s political attitudes (Gerber et al., 2010; Mondak et al., 2010a; Mondak & Halperin, 2008).”
The potential of generative AI for personalized persuasion at scale (2024, methodology): “We focused on the Big Five personality traits as an established marker of personality 48 that has been: (1) validated across different contexts 49 , (2) shown to predict a wide range of preferences and life outcomes 41,42 , and (3) used in past research on personalized persuasion (e.g., 50–52 ).”
Personality and Legislative Politics: The Big Five Trait Dimensions Among U.S. State Legislators (2012, methodology): “…mass public that have found Big Five effects on ideology and/or partisan affiliation include Alford and Hibbing (2007), Barbaranelli et al. (2007), Gerber et al. (2010, 2011a, 2011b), Mondak (2010), Mondak et al. (2010), Mondak and Halperin (2008), Mondak and Hibbing (2012), Riemann, Grubich,…”
Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes (2011, methodology): “Other work finds that Extraversion and Emotional Stability—traits we find are associated with higher levels of political participation—are associated with holding conservative economic policy attitudes (Gerber et al. 2010).”
Material Welfare and Changing Political Preferences: The Case of Support for Redistributive Social Policies (2014, background): “, the work on family socialization, personality, peer influence, and cognition and framing by Glass, Bengtson, and Dunham [1986]; Gerber et al. [2010]; Gartner [2008]; and Druckman [2004], respectively).”
Beyond Total Effects: Exploring the Interplay of Personality and Attitudes in Affecting Turnout in the 2009 German Federal Election (2013, background): “Political attitudes that prior research on political behavior has shown to be influential in affecting turnout might also be conceived of as (domain-specific) characteristic adaptations (Gerber et al. 2010).”
Tweeting From Left to Right (2015, neutral): “Liberals Conservatives Given prior research (e.g., Carney et al., 2008; Gerber et al., 2010), we also considered the possibility that liberals, who are more likely than conservatives to engage in cross-ideological dissemination of information, would score higher on the “Big Five” personality trait o”
Personality and Political Discussion (2011, background): “This already has occurred in research on the Big Five and ideology, where numerous scholars using multiple measures of the Big Five consistently have found the same basic patterns (e.g. Alford and Hibbing 2007; Carney et al. 2008; Gerber et al. 2010; Mondak 2010).”
Overconfidence in Political Behavior (2015, neutral): “In this literature, our model is closest to Blomberg and Harrington (2000), although like all fully Bayesian models, this model is inconsistent with the data here, as discussed in Section 3.”
Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science? (2023, background): “For example, an individual’s personality, or their stable patterns of thought and behavior across time, will correlate with their political leaning (Gerber et al., 2010), social status (Anderson et al., 2001), and linguistic expression (Pennebaker and King, 1999).”
Personality Traits and Political Participation: Evidence from South Korea (2013, background): “1 A detailed summary of the findings is available at Mondak (2010) and Gerber et al. (2011b). 2 It is not to say that the “Big Five” can encompass all personality dimensions.”
Beyond Binary Labels: Political Ideology Prediction of Twitter Users (2017, background): “However, extreme liberals are not associated with posting negative emotions either, only using words that reflect more anxiety (L-ANX), which is related to neuroticism in which the liberals are higher (Gerber et al., 2010).”
Predicting the Big 5 personality traits from digital footprints on social media: A meta-analysis (2018, neutral): “…Vaillant, 1999), success in romantic relationships (e.g., Donnellan, Conger, & Bryant, 2004; Donnellan, Larsen-Rife, & Conger, 2005), political attitudes (e.g., Gerber, Huber, Doherty, Dowling, & Ha, 2010), subjective well-being (e.g., Hayes & Joseph, 2003), and online behaviors (e.g., Wang, 2013).”