Personality and Social Attitudes Broad Links · Religiosity - A (positive correlation), C (positive correlation) & O (negative correlation) · Environmentalism - O (positive correlation) · Mortality - C (positive correlation), E (positive correlation) & N (negative correlation) · Political Liberalism - C (negative correlation) & O (positive correlation) · Pathogen Disgust - C (positive correlation), N (positive correlation) & O (negative correlation) Beyond Big Five . Big 5 is a broad and holistic level of personality · Broken into a hierarchy of: - Meta-traits - Big Five - Aspects - Facets Facets & Personality Disorders: Lynam & Widiger (2001) · Table in Slides · Antisocial Personality Disorder - Big 5 domains and facets - Domains characterised by low A & C · Neuroticism = 2.80 (normal level) - N-Anger/Hostility = 4.14 - N-Impulsiveness = 4.73 · Extraversion = 3.53 (normal level) - E-Assertiveness = 4.23 - E-Excitement Seeking = 4.63 · Facets allow a deeper understanding of behaviour Big Five 'Aspects' & Political Ideology . Political ideology typically linked to O and C - Liberals tend to be more open (Curious, artistic, interested in change) - Conservatives tend to be more conscientious (Dutiful, rigid, purposeful) · Mixed results with other Big Five traits · Agreeableness has two aspects (compassion & politeness) · These may have countervailing associations with political ideology: - Results: preference for the Republican Party was predicted negatively by Compassion (b = -. 32) and positively by Politeness (b = . 18) - Hypothesised there was a difference in aspects of A, however when merged together they cancelled each other out in the overall measurement of A - A in a general sense did not relate to politics but the underlaying aspects showed a deeper connection Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition (Jost et al)
· Argued political conservatism was a reflection of basic temperament styles of individuals · If you do not like ambiguity etc. prefer more stable solutions and political outcomes · Motivated to have a specific social view based on basic temperament · Conducted metal analysis Table in slides- summarises how psychological variable impacted political variable · Graph in slides - Saw that environmental stimuli leads to a Socio-Cognitive Motives [(Epistemic - how the world should be) (Existential - fear of 'world imploding') (Ideological) Trait - Trait Interactions . Pease & Lewis (2015) studied if neuroticism related to anger management . Found that Low N but H/L in C scores were the same and scored high in Anger Control . In High N tend to be less able to express expression of anger, even if high in C they drop slightly · Table in Slides Trait - Outcome Mediation · C has a positive correlation with Educational Achievement · Conard (2006) studied general intelligence of students · Pathway for C and Educational Achievement - found higher attendance led to greater educational achievement · Identified this as a 'mediating' component · Diagram in slides Trait - Situation Interaction · Was there an association between Openness