{"id":41881,"date":"2016-11-07T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=41881"},"modified":"2016-11-08T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T14:02:47","slug":"brock-led-research-team-assesses-personality-traits-of-clinton-and-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/11\/brock-led-research-team-assesses-personality-traits-of-clinton-and-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Research team assesses personality traits of Clinton and Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For the undecided voters in Tuesday\u2019s U.S. presidential election, a Lakehead-Brock University research team has put together a \u2018buyer\u2019s guide\u2019 to each candidate\u2019s personality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In their paper, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S019188691631090X\">Is Hillary dishonest and Donald narcissistic? A HEXACO analysis of the presidential candidates&#8217; public personas<\/a>,<\/em> the team assesses six personalities traits in each candidate.<\/p>\n<p>These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>H<\/strong>onesty-Humility<\/li>\n<li><strong>E<\/strong>motionality<\/li>\n<li>e<strong>X<\/strong>traversion<\/li>\n<li><strong>A<\/strong>greeableness (versus Anger)<\/li>\n<li><strong>C<\/strong>onscientiousness<\/li>\n<li><strong>O<\/strong>penness to Experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cA panel of independent experts reviewed their temperaments and personality,\u201d says Tony Volk, Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies and one of the paper\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s like <em>Consumer Digest<\/em> or <em>Car and Driver<\/em> doing a product review. It&#8217;s best aimed at independent or undecided voters, particularly in the battle ground states,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The three-member team team, led by Beth Visser from Lakehead University,<\/span> rated Hillary Clinton low on Honesty-Humility, normal on Agreeableness and high on Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Trump scored low on Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness and was highly rated on Extraversion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ratings were consistent with Machiavellianism in the case of Hillary Clinton and narcissism and psychopathy for Donald Trump,\u201d says Angela Book, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and paper co-author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the undecided voters in Tuesday\u2019s U.S. presidential election, a Lakehead-Brock University research team has put together a \u2018buyer\u2019s guide\u2019 to each candidate\u2019s personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":41621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1,4,5,38],"tags":[3418,4218,4512,3502,4627],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41942,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41881\/revisions\/41942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}