Category: Bill Clinton

Index of Studies Conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics

Partial index of psychological studies of U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, foreign leaders, and leading terrorist figures conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics.

Trump’s Personality Could Win, Except …

Summary: Donald Trump’s primary personality patterns are ambitious / exploitative (a measure of narcissism), and outgoing / impulsive (a measure of extraversion). Secondarily, Trump exhibits a dominant / controlling pattern, supplemented by dauntless / adventurous and contentious / resolute tendencies — a personality composite best labeled a “high-dominance charismatic.”

Bill Clinton, pictured in 1998

Bill Clinton

Psychological analysis of U.S. president Bill Clinton revealed that Clinton’s primary personality patterns are Ambitious/self-serving and Outgoing/gregarious. In summary, Clinton’s personality composite can be characterized as a “charismatic extravert.”