Citizens’ Preferences Regarding the Big Five Personality Traits of Politicians

• In Event: Psychology and Political Elites

Brief Overview

What personality traits do citizens want their politicians to have? Analyzing Big Five data of citizens and incumbent politicians, we find that citizens prefer performance-based over interpersonal-based core traits, and vote accordingly.

Authors

• Eran Amsalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Jeroen Joly, Ghent University