“Personality and Politics: Obama For and Against Himself”
By Benjamin Knoll, Ph.D. Information Knoll blog February 5, 2012 Excerpts I just finished [Personality and Politics: Obama For and Against Himself] written by political psychologist...
By Benjamin Knoll, Ph.D. Information Knoll blog February 5, 2012 Excerpts I just finished [Personality and Politics: Obama For and Against Himself] written by political psychologist...
By Aubrey Immelman St. Cloud Times September 8, 2012 At the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte N.C., former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday put Barack...
Summary: A psychological profile of U.S. President Barack Obama, developed at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics during Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, reveals that the president is a highly confident, moderately accommodating and deliberative, somewhat reserved personality type best described as a confident conciliator. Specifically, Obama is primarily an Ambitious/confident personality, complemented by secondary Accommodating/cooperative, Conscientious/respectful, and Retiring/reserved features. Obama’s personality profile provides a stable framework for anticipating his likely leadership style as president, as outlined in this report of how Obama will govern, if reelected.
Click on image for larger view Aubrey Immelman St. Cloud Times November 1, 2008 Among the many leaders I have studied — presidential candidates as...
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Barack Obama’s primary personality patterns are found to be Ambitious/confident and Dominant/asserting, with secondary features of the Accommodating/cooperative and Conscientious/respectful patterns. The combination of Ambitious and Accommodating patterns in Obama’s profile suggests a “confident conciliator” personality composite.
Summary: Research conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics under the direction of Aubrey Immelman, Ph.D., offers a political-psychological explanation for Donald Trump’s personal appeal as a candidate and Jeb Bush’s inability to consolidate his erstwhile front-runner status in the 2016 U.S. presidential election Republican primary. The Personal Electability Index has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential election since 1996.
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