Attitudes of the selfless: Explaining political orientation with altruism
@article{Zettler2010AttitudesOT, title={Attitudes of the selfless: Explaining political orientation with altruism}, author={I. Zettler and B. E. Hilbig}, journal={Personality and Individual Differences}, year={2010}, volume={48}, pages={338-342} }
Abstract Previous research on political orientations, which can be understood as one’s left- versus right-wing attitude, has shown that some personality factors yield explanatory power. In the current work, we consider the role of altruism – a personality construct which does not exclusively map onto one of the broad personality dimensions typically studied. Altruism was predicted to relate to left-wing attitudes due to an overlap regarding concerns for social equality, and a discrepancy… CONTINUE READING
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