Political Butterflies Emerging: How the Environment Conditions Extraversion’s Link to Political Activity

• In Event: Psychological Mechanisms and Moderators of Turnout: Emotion, Extraversion, Apathy

Brief Overview

Using 2016 panel data, we demonstrate that extraversion does not benefit women’s political activity as much as it does men’s. Women respond quite differently than men in seeing women in leadership, depending on their levels of extraversion.

Authors

• Amanda Friesen, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

• Paul A. Djupe, Denison University