Joe Biden 2024
Joe Biden’s personality is Outgoing/gregarious, Accommodating/cooperative, and Ambitious/confident, with a collegial, accommodative leadership style.
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Donald Trump 2024
Donald Trump’s personality is Ambitious/exploitative, Dominant/controlling, and Outgoing/impulsive, with a high-dominance, charismatic leadership style.
Chris Christie 2024
Psychological assessment reveals Chris Christie’s personality is Dominant/controlling, supplemented by secondary Ambitious/confident and Dauntless/adventurous patterns and subsidiary Outgoing/congenial and Contentious/resolute features.
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis’s primary personality patterns are Dominant/controlling and Ambitious/confident, supplemented by secondary Retiring/reserved and Contentious/resolute patterns and subsidiary Conscientious/respectful features. The prominence of the Dominant, Ambitious, and Retiring patterns in DeSantis’s profile is indicative of a “high-dominance introvert” political personality type with an “expansionist” leadership orientation and, because of a distinct Conscientious tendency, an “incrementalist” personal political style in consummating his policy objectives.
Mike Pence 2024
Psychological assessment reveals Mike Pence’s personality is Conscientious/dutiful, Dominant/asserting, Ambitious/confident, and Accommodating/cooperative.
Donald Trump 2020
Summary: Psychological assessment reveals Donald Trump’s personality is Ambitious/exploitative (narcissistic), Dominant/controlling, and Outgoing/impulsive, with a high-dominance, charismatic leadership style.
2020 Election — USPP Media Tipsheet
Summary: The Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics (USPP) ‘Media Tipsheet’ offers political reporters covering the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign a psychological perspective on politics.
Trump Administration — 2017-2020 USPP Media Tipsheet
Summary: The Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics (USPP) ‘Media Tipsheet’ offers political reporters looking for a fresh story angle a sometimes unique, often unconventional perspective on 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.”
2016 Election — USPP Media Tipsheet
Summary: The Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics (USPP) ‘Media Tipsheet’ offers political reporters looking for a fresh story angle a sometimes unique, often unconventional perspective on politics.
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