If You Don’t Know Me by Now: The Inability of Individuals to Accurately Discern Personality Traits from Text

• In Event: Evaluating Leaders and Their Rhetoric

Brief Overview

This paper explores the tension between voters' preferences for the personality traits of political leaders and their actual ability to discern those traits from text alone (whether written or spoken).

Authors

• Adam Joseph Ramey, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Jonathan D Klingler, University of Mississippi

• Gary Edward Hollibaugh, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus