Political movements’ leaders and prominent supporters often succeed because specific personality profiles (e.g., high disagreeableness, low neuroticism) map onto both professional success and rhetorical styles that perform well on social platforms. This makes certain personality combinations a structural advantage in platformized politics rather than a mere individual oddity.
— If true, policy and campaigning must reckon with psychological selection effects (who becomes visible and persuasive) when designing platform rules, candidate vetting, and civic education.
Razib Khan
2026.01.04
100% relevant
Hanania cites the Big Five and claims disagreeableness plus low neuroticism correlate with professional success and with the styles that fuel online populist prominence (actor: Richard Hanania; topic: Big Five → populist leadership).
@degenrolf
2026.01.02
72% relevant
If political engagement has a heritable component, one plausible pathway is via personality (e.g., openness, conscientiousness) that influences participation and persuasion; the existing idea linking personality to political alignment clarifies a mechanistic route connecting genetics to civic behaviour mentioned in the tweet.
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