Personality Goes a Long Way (for Some). An Experimental Investigation Into Candidate Personality Traits, Voters’ Profile, and Perceived Likeability

The personality traits of political candidates, and the way these are perceived by the public at large, matter for political representation and electoral behavior. Disentangling the effects of partisanship and perceived personality on candidate evaluations is however notoriously a tricky business, as voters tend to evaluate the personality of candidates based on their partisan preferences. In this article we tackle this issue via innovative experimental data. We present what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first study that manipulates the personality traits of a candidate and assesses its subsequent effects. The design, embedded in an online survey distributed to a convenience sample of US respondents (MTurk, N = 1,971), exposed respondents randomly to one of eight different “vignettes” presenting personality cues for a fictive candidate - one vignette for each of the five general traits (Big Five) and the three “nefarious” traits of the Dark Triad. Our results show that 1) the public at large dislikes “dark” politicians, and rate them significantly and substantially lower in likeability; 2) voters that themselves score higher on “dark” personality traits (narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) tend to like dark candidates, in such a way that the detrimental effect observed in general is completely reversed for them; 3) the effects of candidates’ personality traits are, in some cases, stronger for respondents displaying a weaker partisan attachment.

Evidence from mass-transactional data that chaotic spending behaviour precedes consumer financial distress

The prevalence of digital footprints can allow researchers to study the personalities of millions of individuals with improved ecological validity. We present spending entropy as a candidate personality trait derived as a feature of an objective big data source---mass-transactional data from millions of bank accounts. Entropy measures the unpredictability of spending and acts as a measure of the chaotic nature of a person's life. Over and above how much money people spend, and what the money is spent on, spending entropy positively relates to future financial distress. High entropy leads to increased probability of missed payments across financial products. Entropy temporally relates to future distress three months ahead including more severe measures of distress. We replicate our findings in personal current account, loan, and mortgage holders in a second financial institution. Our findings suggest that high-dimensional data can be used to build psychological traits that predict outcomes in novel situations.

Automatic Detection of Career Recommendation Using Fuzzy Approach

In today's era where personalization of the learning material is a key factor towards the success of learning goal for any student according to their personality traits, learning style and cognitive style, choosing a career according to personality traits is also become a key to success of job satisfaction. Hence, this article proposes the recommendation of career on the basis of candidate personality attributes. In this article, Holland's theory is used to detect candidate's personality. Weights are assigned to each personality traits to calculate the scores are calibrated manually with help of research work done in this domain before and the feedback. A survey is conducted to test the accuracy of proposed method on 217 responses. The result shows the 74.35% candidates are satisfied with the recommended career and average rating for personality traits score was 3.58/5. This article also suggests a fuzzy approach to automatic detection of career recommendation based on personality score.

Den personlige faktor: Højre- og venstreorienterede vælgere foretrækker forskellige kandidatpersonligheder

Candidates and party leaders are often believed to play a minor role in the party-centered Danish elections. In this article, I argue that this nding could be due to methodological as well as theoretical inadequacies. Methodologically, candidate personality needs to be disentangled from the candidates’ political positions and party a liation. eoretically, the literature on candidate personality needs to investigate the role played by ideology. Drawing on recent insights on the fundamental di erences between individuals on the ideological left and right, I argue that rightwing voters will prefer a dominant candidate personality, while their leftwing counterparts will prefer an agreeable candidate personality. e prediction is supported in an experimental study conducted on Danish student subjects. e ndings demonstrate that rightwing voters evaluate a domi- nant candidate personality more positively than leftwing voters. On the contrary, leftwing voters evaluate an agreeable candidate personality more positively than rightwing voters. e nding suggests that di erent voters prefer di erent types of candidates and that no universal winning candidate personality exists.

Analysis of the 16th Paliamentary Election in Korea Especially Including the Chungbuk Province

No theory can explain regionalism, party choice, candidate personality, policy and money with one unified frame in the 16th parliamentary election in Korea 2000. Party choice of constituents is correlated with regionalism, which could be well understood in either emotional or rational theory because they vote in their own subjective rational judgement. They may select their preferable party based on emotional subjective regionalism or perceived on unequal disadvantaged regionalism. So regionalism in Korea could be explained in both cognitive psychological theory and rational choice theory. The candidate personality seems to prevail more in the Korean parliamentary election than party. If so then, the independent candidates should be elected but in fact they are a few only. Policy that a candidate or a party presented in the election has not enough influence upon win or defeat. It may be interpreted as much money demand for winning during informal or formal campaigning that campaign money is related with winning significantly. One noticeable achievement of elections is the successful civic campaign to boycott unfit politicians, even though the campaign has been ruled as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.