Tagged: 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.

Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri

Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s primary personality patterns are Contentious/oppositional and Dominant/controlling, with secondary features of the Dauntless/dissenting and Ambitious/self-serving patterns. The amalgam of Contentious (negativistic, or passive-aggressive) and Dominant (aggressive, or sadistic) patterns in al-Zawahiri’s profile suggests the presence of an “abrasive negativist” syndrome.