Personalities Pack GOP Debate
Summary: Psychological evaluation and comparison of the 10 GOP presidential contenders in the August 6, 2015 Fox News Republican candidate debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
Tagged: Rick Santorum
Mitt Romney and the Enthusiasm Gap
By Dan Balz The Take February 8, 2012 Excerpts In the aftermath of Rick Santorum’s clean sweep of Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, Mitt Romney is...
Obama Campaign Tilting at Romney Windmill
Obama Plan: Destroy Romney (Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin, Politico, Aug. 9, 2011) — Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s reelection campaign on...
Obama Campaign Turns Attention to Santorum
By Sandhya Somashekhar February 17, 2012 Excerpts Rick Santorum’s surprising momentum at a critical stage in the presidential race has forced the Obama campaign to...
GOP Presidential Candidate Profiles, Polling, and Debates
Summary: The large number of declared and prospective Republican presidential candidates in the 2016 election cycle poses a challenge for the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, which aims to release psychological profiles of all debate participants prior to the first GOP debate, presented by Fox News in collaboration with Facebook Aug. 6, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio.
FOX News Debate Preview: Comparative Psychological Profiles of the Republican Field
Summary: Psychological evaluation and comparison of the 10 GOP presidential contenders in the August 6, 2015 Fox News Republican candidate debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
Projecting the Winner of the 2016 Presidential Election: The Personal Electability Index
Summary: Aubrey Immelman, Ph.D., director of the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, projects Donald Trump will win the 2016 U.S. presidential election, employing the Personal Electability Index (PEI), which has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential election since 1996 before Super Tuesday.
Rick Santorum
Summary: A psychological analysis of former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, conducted in spring 2012 by Beth Peichel, Amanda Nusbaum, Feiran Chen, Sara Duxbury, Wade Kohls, Rachel Heying, and Aubrey Immelman, Ph.D., at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics revealed that Santorum’s primary personality pattern is Conscientious/dutiful, with secondary features of the Dominant/controlling and Ambitious/confident patterns — a personality pattern very similar to that of likely Republican nominee in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, Mitt Romney.
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