Libya
Intelligence analysis by Dr. Jerrold Post revealed that Muammar Gaddafi possessed the core characteristics of malignant narcissism: pathological narcissism, antisocial features, paranoid traits, and unconstrained aggression.
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2016 Presidential Candidates
Psychological profiles of 2016 U.S. presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, and Scott Walker (GOP) and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (Democrats).
Joe Biden 2024
Joe Biden’s personality is Outgoing/gregarious, Accommodating/cooperative, and Ambitious/confident, with a collegial, accommodative leadership style.
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.
Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky’s primary personality patterns are Ambitious/confident, Outgoing/congenial, Dauntless/adventurous, and Accommodating/cooperative, complemented by secondary Conscientious/respectful and Dominant/asserting features.
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.
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