Description
Is there a link between personality and politics?
We have investigated several links between personality – a general description of a person’s traits – and different forms of political behavior and attitudes. For example, in several papers we find that agreeableness is linked to voting for populists.
The goal of this approach is to identify how our political preferences emerge and are intertwined with broader features of our lives.
Publications
| No | Publication |
|---|---|
| 4 | Gustavo Couto de Jesus, Maaike D. Homan, Diamantis Petropoulos Petalas, Bert N.Bakker, Joe Bathelt, and Gijs Schumacher (2025). An ERP-study on the extent to which partisanship conditions the early processing of politicians’ faces Social Neuroscience |
| 22 | Dániel Komáromy, Matthijs Rooduijn, Gijs Schumacher (2024). Mapping the populist mind: A network approach to integrate sociological and psychological models of the populist radical right. Frontiers in Political Science |
| 72 | Martijn Schoonvelde, Gijs Schumacher & Bert N. Bakker (2019). Friends With Text as Data Benefits: Assessing and Extending the Use of Automated Text Analysis in Political Science and Political Psychology. Journal of Social and Political Psychology |
| 76 | Martijn Schoonvelde, Anna Brosius, Gijs Schumacher & Bert N. Bakker (2019). Liberals Lecture, Conservatives Communicate: analyzing complexity and ideology in 381,475 speeches. PLoS One |
