The impact of personality traits on people's attitudes and behaviors is widely recognized, yet
systematic attention to personality in large‐N research on elected officials has been rare …

Research on the psychological bases of political attitudes tends to dwell on the attitudes of
conservatives, rarely placing a conscious thematic emphasis on what motivates liberals to …

This study explores how variation in voters' personality traits, as represented by the Big Five
framework, corresponded with variation in judgments regarding the leading presidential …

Over its long history, the concept of ideology has acquired a vast and at times
incommensurable roster of meanings: positive and negative, analytic and critical …

The tremendous diversity of this volume's chapters demonstrates the complexity of political
trust. This complexity is seen in how trust is conceptualized and measured, in its …

Political surveys often include multi-item scales to measure individual predispositions such
as authoritarianism, egalitarianism, or racial resentment. Scholars use these scales to …

This chapter begins by addressing the definitional question of what ideology is and reviews
work on the nature of ideology and its consequences for public opinion. It provides an …

Political surveys often include multi-item scales to measure individual predispositions such
as authoritarianism, egalitarianism, or racial resentment. Scholars typically use these scales …

Moral psychology plays a critical role in political attitude formation, behavior, and the
intersection of the two. In this chapter, we review the political science and political …

Immigration is one of the most salient and divisive issues in the US and a host of other
countries, with public opinion polarized and elites deadlocked on the issue. One limitation of …