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SUMMARY:Reconsidering the relationship between personality and politics - 
 Bert Bakker (Amsterdam)
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CONTACT:David Young
DESCRIPTION:Decades of research establish a robust correlation between per
 sonality traits and the political ideology of adults. The dominant perspec
 tive contends that individual differences in psychological needs drive the
  connection between traits and political ideology and\, in doing so\, give
  rise to an asymmetry between liberals and conservatives. In particular\, 
 individuals who prefer structure and order and are more sensitive to threa
 ts find solace and comfort in conservative approaches to politics. As intu
 itive as this perspective seems\, the majority of the evidence supporting 
 this claim comes from cross-sectional research in which self-reported pers
 onality traits are correlated with self-reported ideology. Yet\, there is 
 a small\, but growing body of research that cast some doubt that personali
 ty traits have an unmediated\, direct casual effect on ideology. In this t
 alk I will discuss some of my recent and ongoing work that casts further d
 oubt on the assumed personality-politics relationship. I will provide evid
 ence that this relationship is more complex and reciprocal. I will support
  this with evidence from population based panel studies\, cohort studies t
 hat follow kids into adulthood\, survey experiments and laboratory experim
 ents. Based upon this work\, I will outline an agenda for the next generat
 ion of personality-politics research that takes into account the reciproca
 l relationship between politics and personality as well as the role of med
 iators and moderators of this relationship.\n\nClick-through for the Zoom 
 link: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/study/current-postgraduates/spss-joini
 ng-details
LOCATION:via zoom 
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