Altruism at the ballots: Predicting political attitudes and behavior

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• 作者：Ingo Zettler^a ; ^{ingo.zettler@uni-tuebingen.de} ; Benjamin E. Hilbig^b ; ^{hilbig@psychologie.uni-mannheim.de} ; Julia Haubrich^c ; ^{julia.haubrich@fernuni-hagen.de}
• 关键词：Altruism ; Political orientation ; Voting ; Voting behavior ; HEXACO
• 刊名：Journal of Research in Personality
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：February 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：45
• 期：1
• 页码：130-133
• 全文大小：165 K

文摘

The role of stable individual differences for political ideologies is quite undisputed. Herein, we add texture to the recent finding that dispositional altruism plays a noteworthy role for political orientation. More precisely, besides aiming to replicate this link, we assumed that altruism also influences hypothetical and actual voting behavior as well as endorsement of specific, currently debated political agendas. In a study which comprised two times of measurement prior to and after a nation-wide election in Germany, support for these hypotheses was obtained. Indeed, dispositional altruism was shown to consistently predict both attitudinal and behavioral criteria in the realm of politics.