Very exciting to see this article on the Big Five personality traits of U.S. senators out at @PRQjournal. It& #39;s quite the @IllinoisPolSci team. The project began as an undergraduate senior honors thesis project for now @Illinois_Alma alum Matthew Rice...

...who was drawing on the pathbreaking work of Jeff Mondak about personality and political behavior, and they brought our Ph.D. alum @ProfMLRemmel onto the project to help bring it to publication. The key innovation...

...is to solicit elite responses to the Big Five personality battery for a hard-to-survey population (i.e., U.S. senators). (Do the expert assessments match with your priors...?) ...

They then look among the sample for whom they can construct personality scores to see if there is a correlation between personality and behaviors in the Senate. ...

What a great project, no?! I just love that it started as an undergraduate thesis. You can find the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1065912920928587.">https://doi.org/10.1177%2... #PoliSciTweets #PoliSciResearch #SocSciResearch