Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes

By A. Gerber, G. Huber, D. Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Connor N. Raso, Shang E. Ha. 2011

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

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The Relationship between Genes, Psychological Traits, and Political Participation (2014, unknown): “…conjecture that is potentially supported by recent scholarship demonstrating a relationship between personality traits and political participation (Gerber et al. 2011, Mondak et al. 2010, Mondak 2010, Blais & St-Vincent 2011, Vecchione & Caprara 2009, Mondak & Halperin 2008, Denny & Doyle 2008,…”
Personality Traits and Political Participation: Evidence from South Korea (2013, background): “Previous studies have examined the relationships between the “Big Five” personality traits and political participation in the United States (Gerber et al., 2011; Mondak & Halperin, 2008; Mondak, 2010; Mondak et al., 2010), Finland (Mattila et al.”
Personality and Legislative Politics: The Big Five Trait Dimensions Among U.S. State Legislators (2012, background): “…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 and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts (2010, background): “Indeed, the size of the effects of these traits rivals those of canonical predictors of political behavior that have been the subject of countless studies—such as education and income (Gerber et al. 2010b).”
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).”
Using a Personality-Profiling Algorithm to Investigate Political Microtargeting: Assessing the Persuasion Effects of Personality-Tailored Ads on Social Media (2020, unknown): “In the psychological literature, personality traits are often comprehensively represented by a Five-Factor Model (Cooper et al., 2013; Gerber et al., 2011; Mondak et al., 2010).”
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).”
The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena (2011, background): “For example, some studies find a positive association between Neuroticism and turnout (Anderson 2009, Mondak et al. 2010), whereas others find evidence that this trait is associated with lower turnout (Gerber et al. 2011b).”