Aubrey Immelman

College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University | The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University · Psychology

This paper presents the results of an indirect personality assessment of U.S. vice president Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential nominee in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Harris were collected from biographical sources and media rep...

This research report presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Empress Wu Zetian, de facto ruler of China from 665 to 705, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Empress Wu were collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into...

This is a PowerPoint presentation of a paper, "The Personality Profile and Leadership Style of U.S. President Joe Biden," presented at the 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Biden were collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized in...

This presentation reports the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Trudeau were collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Trudeau were collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Mi...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality and leadership style of U.S. president Joe Biden, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Biden were collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using...

This PowerPoint presentation summarizes the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. senator Kamala Harris, Democratic vice-presidential nominee in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Harris were collected from biographica...

This PowerPoint presentation summarizes the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of former U.S. vice president Joe Biden, Democratic nominee in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Biden were collected from biographical sourc...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. senator Kamala Harris, Democratic vice-presidential nominee in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Harris were collected from biographical sources and medi...

This poster summarizes the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. senator Kamala Harris, Democratic vice-presidential nominee in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Harris were collected from biographical sources and m...

This working paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of former U.S. vice president Joe Biden, Democratic nominee in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Biden were collected from biographical sources and media...

This poster summarizes the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of former U.S. vice president Joe Biden, Democratic nominee in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Biden were collected from biographical sources and media repo...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon, of the personality of Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States, based solely on personality dynamics revealed by his political behavior in office. Psychodiagnostically relevant data were collected from biographi...

PowerPoint presentation to accompany Aubrey Immelman and Anne Marie Griebie's paper on “The Personality Profile and Leadership Style of U.S. President Donald J. Trump in Office” at the 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, July 16, 2020. The last slide (#18) contains links to related papers and a 10-mi...

“The Personality Profile of 2020 U.S. Presidential Contender Bernie Sanders.” Research poster presented by Andrew Saunders, Thomas Lenard, Erik Balder, and Isaias Guzman, 19th annual Celebrating Scholarship & Creativity Day, College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, St. Joseph and Collegeville, Minn., April 25, 2019. (Faculty advisor: Aubr...

This working paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. senator Bernie Sanders — a contender for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential election — from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Information concerning Sanders was collected from biographical sources and media reports...

Core characteristics of a comprehensive model of personality in politics: A comprehensive model for the study of personality in politics should account for structural and functional personality attributes, at behavioral, phenomenological, intrapsychic, and biophysical levels of analysis; permit supplementary developmental causal analysis (i.e., gen...

[Note: A more recent paper, titled "The Political Personality of 2020 Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden," provides a more thorough personality assessment and more detailed leadership style analysis. The updated paper is available at ResearchGate and at http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/psychology_pubs/130/] This working paper presents the...

A psychological analysis of United States Supreme Court associate justice Brett Kavanaugh revealed that Kavanaugh’s primary personality patterns are Conscientious/respectful and Accommodating/cooperative, with secondary Dominant/asserting and Ambitious/confident features. In summary, Justice Kavanaugh’s personality composite can be characterized as...

This working paper presents a personality-based analysis of the likely leadership style of Chairman Kim Jong-un, supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in negotiations with U.S. president Donald Trump, inferred from the results of indirect personality assessments conducted 2013-2018 from the conceptual perspective of personolo...

This working paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Kim Jong-un, supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, conducted 2013–2018 from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Kim was collected from open-source media reports and synthe...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. vice president Mike Pence, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Information concerning Pence was collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic C...

This working paper presents a personality-based analysis of newly elected U.S. president Donald Trump’s likely leadership style as president, inferred from the results of an indirect personality assessment conducted 2015–2016 from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Trump’s predominant personality patterns were found to b...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data regarding Putin were extracted from open-source intelligence and synthesized into a personality profile using the...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Donald J. Trump, Republican nominee in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, conducted 2015–2016 from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Trump were collected from biographical sources and media reports...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democratic nominee in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The present report combines data from five studies conducted between 1998 and 2016 from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data a...

Editor's synopsis of contributions to the 2009 edition of Headwaters, the faculty journal of the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in St. Joseph and Collegeville, Minnesota. The full text of the volume is available at http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/headwaters/vol26/iss1/

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. president Barack Obama, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Information concerning Obama was collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Cr...

Political psychology is an interdisciplinary academic specialty focusing on the study of psychological processes that influence political behavior. Accordingly, a more precise label for the discipline might be “the psychology of politics” or “psychological political science.”

This paper presents the results of indirect assessments of the personalities of Arizona senator John McCain and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, contenders for the Republican Party nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Information concerning Sen. McCain and Mayor Giu...

Following a brief overview of historical approaches to personality-in-politics inquiry, this book chapter reviews the current state of the field — specifically, psychodynamic approaches, trait/motivational perspectives, and cognitive models — and argues that Theodore Millon’s personological model offers an integrative framework for assessing person...

Despite major neuroscientific advances in the past two decades and parallel conceptual refinement in evolutionary theory, personality-in-politics inquiry remains adrift, divorced from these broader spheres of scientific knowledge. This paper reviews the neurobiological substrates of three major domains of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology...

This chapter outlines the history of personality inquiry in political psychology, examines the current state of personality assessment in politics, and charts a course for the study of personality in politics in the post-cognitive revolution era, informed by contextually adjacent scientific fields such as behavioral neuroscience and evolutionary ec...

This paper presents the results of a posthumous, indirect assessment of the personality of Mohamed Atta, apparent ringleader in the September 11, 2001 terror attack on the World Trade Center, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon. Information concerning Mohamed Atta was collected from media reports and synthesized into a personality pr...

This book chapter presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. president George W. Bush, conducted 1998–2000 from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon. Psychodiagnostically relevant data regarding Bush was extracted from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality p...

Assessment of Osama bin Laden, founder and leader of al-Qaeda, shows he is highly ambitious and exploitative (i.e., narcissistic), with adventurous and dissenting (i.e., antisocial) tendencies. Narcissistic leaders are bold, competitive, self-assured, and frequently charismatic; they easily assume leadership roles, expect others to recognize their...

Assessment of 9/11 hijack ringleader Mohamed Atta indicates a highly conscientious (i.e., compulsive), introverted (i.e., schizoid) individual with secondary self-denying (i.e., masochistic) features. Atta’s personality profile suggests the presence of the puritanical compulsive syndrome. This composite character complex is rooted in deep ambivalen...

This article argues that conventional presidential election-outcome forecasting models based on situational and structural economic and political variables can be refined by acknowledging the pivotal role of personality in contemporary presidential campaigns and incorporating candidate personality variables as publicly perceived into predictive mod...

This essay documents some of the enduring personal characteristics that provide an empirical basis for assessing Hillary Rodham Clinton’s dominant, ambitious personality pattern from a psychobiographical, psychohistorical perspective.

The paper presents the results of an indirect psychodiagnostic assessment of the political personality of U.S. vice president Al Gore, Democratic nominee in the 2000 presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon. Information concerning Al Gore was collected from published biographical and autobiographical accounts and po...

With a Personal Electability Index (PEI) score of -17 -- compared with 31 for George W. Bush -- it is predicted that Al Gore will not be elected president in 2000. This paper highlights the key role of extraversion with reference to electoral success in U.S. presidential elections since the advent of television and argues that the introverted Al Go...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the political personality of Texas governor George W. Bush, early Republican front-runner in the U.S. presidential election of 2000, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon. Information concerning George W. Bush was collected from published biographical accounts and political p...

The personalities of President Bill Clinton and Senator Bob Dole were indirectly assessed from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon. Information pertaining to Bill Clinton and Bob Dole was collected from published biographical material and synthesized into personality profiles using Millon's diagnostic criteria. President Clinton was found...

Conventional wisdom dictates that international education promotes student development and the acquisition of worthwhile knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Accrediting agencies, however, demand concrete evidence to substantiate such claims. This article describes the development of a conceptual frame work and methodology for the academic assessment...

[Review of the book Theories of Intergroup Relations: International Social Psychological Perspectives (2nd ed.), by Donald M. Taylor & Fathali M. Moghaddam. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994, 256 pp. US$59.95 cloth. ISBN 0-275-94634-7. US$24.95 paper. ISBN 0-275-94635-5. Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, P.O. Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881, USA.] Aubr...

The purpose of this paper is to examine salient factors accounting for South Africa’s relatively peaceful transition from apartheid state to nonracial democracy, focusing on the political personalities of South African leaders P.W. Botha, F.W. de Klerk, and Nelson Mandela. Following a brief overview of situational variables, the paper describes the...

The purpose of this article is to narrow the conceptual and methodological gap between existing formulations in psychodiagnostic theory and current practice in political personality. It is suggested that accurate assessment of the personalities of high-level leaders can significantly improve the prediction of political outcomes but that this endeav...

This article reports the results of an exploratory political personality assessment of U.S. president Bill Clinton, derived from psychodiagnostic meta-analysis of biographical information in the public domain, and designed to place personological knowledge from diverse sources and divergent perspectives into a coherent psychodiagnostic framework....

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Ségolène Royal, Socialist candidate in the 2007 French presidential election. The study was conducted from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millonʼs model of personality. Information concerning Royal was collected from biographical sources and media reports and sy...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The study was conducted from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millonʼs model of personality. Information concerning Sarkozy was collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using...

The paper reports the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Sen. John Kerry, Democratic Party nominee in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Sen. Kerry’s primary personality pattern is Ambitious/confident, with secondary features of the Dominant/asserting and Dauntless/venturesome patterns. The amalgam of Ambitious and Dominant p...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Ayman al-Zawahiri, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon. Information concerning al-Zawahiri was collected from media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the second edition of the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yi...

Chronicle, from the perspective of political psychology, of events and controversies in the impeachment saga of President Bill Clinton, from the president’s August 17, 1998 testimony before the grand jury in the Starr investigation to his acquittal on February 12, 1999.

In this article I first offer a brief historical account of European white settlement, and ultimately political dominance, in southern Africa. Next, I outline how whites, and in particular Afrikaner-dominated National Party governments after 1948, achieved almost total subjugation of South Africa’s black majority through oppressive legislation and...

This paper reports the method and preliminary findings of an investigation of the political personalities of South African president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress president Nelson Mandela. The purpose of the study was to assess the utility of Theodore Millon’s personological model as an alternative or supplementary conceptual framewor...

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This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon. Information concerning President Mugabe was collected from media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the second edition of the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Cri...

This paper presents the results of indirect, psychodiagnostic assessments of the political personalities of Texas governor George W. Bush and U.S. vice president Al Gore, putative Republican and Democratic nominees in the U.S. presidential election of 2000, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon. Information concerning George W. Bush an...

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment, and comparison, of the personalities of U.S. first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon. Information pertaining to Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton was collected from biographical material and print media, and synthesiz...