POL 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness, Work Ethic
5 Feb 2019
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Explains how people can have ideologies/predictable patterns of attitudes without. Implies that politics is set early in life, before we know anything about politics. Individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Formed early in life- combination of genes, early socialization, and environment. From psychology and extensively validated measure (costa and mcrae 1985) Each dimension is independent (being high on one does not automatically mean you will. Views ideology as a function of stable personality traits. Ratings of children"s personality predicts ideology years later ex. Children rated as uncomfortable with uncertainty in nursery school were more likely. The personality approach to be conservatives as adults. Implications of the personality approach understanding much about ideology. What are the big 5? be high on another dimension, they are not correlated) Some of these dimensions are related to political attitudes and ideology.
