Personality and the Challenges of Democratic Governance How Unconsci
This book examines how the five-factor model of personality (also known as the Big Five)—extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability/neuroticism, and openness to experience—influence individuals’ ability to understand and engage in
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Aaron Dusso
Personality and the Challenges of Democratic Governance How Unconscious Thought Influences Political Understanding
Aaron Dusso Political Science Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-53602-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53603-3
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To my Mom and Dad, who never shied away from a political debate.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This project began several years ago with a rather simple curiosity about how unconscious thought processes influence the extent to which individuals are able to understand political processes and engage in political behavior (what I eventually began to refer to as their civic aptitude). Understanding the quality of citizens’ political participation has been a driving force in my work for quite some time and this research project combines it with my more recent obsession with how the unconscious mind drives behavior. It seemed to me that much of the scholarly understanding in the area of citizen capabilities was limited to individuals’ performance in laboratory experiments. While I whole-heartedly support such research, it still leaves one wondering exactly what effect these automatic brain processes have on the quality of everyday political behavior. That is, documenting framing effects in the laboratory is easy, showing how a particular frame affected voters in a particular election is not. Thus, the fascin
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