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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 four areas of civic life. First, it documents how personality influences individuals when connecting abstract concepts like liberal or conservative to specific public policy preferences. Second, it demonstrates how understanding basic political facts is often conditional on these traits. Third, it tests the role that personality plays in citizens’ capacity to fulfill the basic demands that democratic governance places on them, such as connecting their own policy preferences to the correct political party. Fourth, it reveals how personality traits can blind people to the role government plays in their lives, while simultaneously causing them to vilify more visible beneficiaries of government programs. Ultimately, this book will engage both scholars and civic-minded individuals interested in understanding the hidden factors driving political behavior.

Political science. --- Democracy. --- Elections. --- United States --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Electoral Politics. --- US Politics. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Politics and government. --- Personality and politics. --- Subliminal perception. --- Social movements --- Psychological aspects. --- Movements, Social --- Implicit perception --- Nonconscious perception --- Perception without awareness --- Stimulation, Subliminal --- Subception --- Subliminal stimulation --- Unconscious perception --- Politics and personality --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Temperament --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Representative government and representation --- Self-government --- Equality --- Republics --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Mental suggestion --- Perception --- Subliminal projection --- United States-Politics and gover. --- Consciousness. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Philosophy --- Spirit --- United States—Politics and government. --- America --- Difference (Psychology). --- Political Science. --- American Politics. --- Personality and Differential Psychology. --- Differential psychology --- Psychology, Differential --- Differentiation (Developmental psychology)