Tagged: Barack Obama

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.

Russia

Psychological profile of Vladimir Putin: Dominant/controlling (aggressive), Ambitious/self-serving (narcissistic), and Conscientious/dutiful, with secondary Retiring/reserved (introverted) and Dauntless/adventurous (risk-taking) tendencies and lesser Distrusting/suspicious features.

The Personality Profile of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s primary personality patterns are Distrusting/suspicious (paranoid) and Ambitious/exploitative (narcissistic), with secondary Dominant/controlling (sadistic) and Dauntless/dissenting (antisocial) patterns. The amalgam of paranoid and narcissistic patterns in the profile suggests the presence of the “fanatical paranoid” syndrome.