Map of 3 million personality tests showing regional neuroticism (fear) and voting behavior in the United States. Credit: Social Psychological and Personality Science
Posted on 03/12/2018 3:29:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Regions where voters have more neurotic personality traits were more likely to vote for Donald Trump in the United States or for the Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom, revealing a new trend that could help explain the rise of fearmongering populist political campaigns across the world, according to new research published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Researchers analyzed personality traits from online surveys of more than 3 million people in the United States and more than 417,000 people in the United Kingdom. Election data was compiled from public sources.
"Our study reveals how neuroticism or psychological hardship is shaping the global political landscape," said lead study author Martin Obschonka, PhD, a psychologist and associate professor at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. "One could also call this 'irrational' voting behavior because the surprising success of Trump and Brexit weren't predicted by models that relied on a rational understanding of voters."
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Map of 3 million personality tests showing regional neuroticism (fear) and voting behavior in the United States. Credit: Social Psychological and Personality Science
Maps of UK voting patterns and personality test results in 2016. Credit: Social Psychological and Personality Science
Lib liars off and running, sure that they're entitled to their own set of facts. Soviet-style mental hospital incarcerations are next, if they get their way.
In other words, if you are a male with testosterone and you want to fight for your country, you are psychologically impaired.
An excuse to take the guns away from those that also just happen to be clinging to their guns?
I voted for Trump because I’m happy.
More liberal armchair psychologist BS analysis.
As fake as their claim the Russians colluded with Trump to help him steal the election.
And how do the “objective researchers” define fear, and fear of what? “Fear-mongering” is considered negative behavior, but only the right is described that way in the media, despite all the appeals to fear put forward by the left.
We’re not just deplorable; we’re deplorable neurotics. And proud of it.
Did it ever occur to these academics that fear is rational in the real world under globalism, and the absence of fear while being invaded is crazy?
That’s the ticket, we are all nuts, and Hillary is not.
Gee...all this time I thought that Trump voters were of demonstrably limited intelligence.Now I learn that,in fact,they have the same basic personality as Woody Allen.
I thought it was genderized global climate change.
The Leftist @ssholes not only don’t know which end of a gun the bullets exit from, but they can’t decide which bathroom to use...and they think we’re crazy and dumb.
So, why is it that the left is always so angry and enraged and have riots, etc.?
Is my firm conviction the Hillary Clinton is a criminal the result of a neurotic delusion, or the fact that Hillary Clinton is a criminal?
Is my firm conviction that Barack Obama was weaponizing the bureaucracy to perpetuate political control the result of paranoia, or the fact that Barack Obama was weaponizing the bureaucracy to perpetuate political control?
Could it be something about Marxism that causes neuroticism?
Libtards are inherently very neurotic, so I find it difficult to believe that any serious “scientific” study could come to these conclusions. I am not going to wade through any of it (not worth it), but I suspect that the desired results were carefully baked in with the study’s “recipe”....
It's already starting. Essentially, they're saying: "If you voted for Trump or Brexit, you are CERTIFIABLY INSANE. We can take your guns, or lock you up, you have no rights."
Bullstalin.
Stalinists lie. Always
Into the gulag. Put dissenters in with crazy people. Dope them up. Stress them out. Some plan, Commierats.
Liberals are perpetually lying scum
They seem to be confusing being neurotic with having a brain and actually using it.
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