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Summary: Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s has announced his candidacy for governor in the 2018 election. A psychological analysis of Pawlenty, conducted 2010-2011 when he ran for president, revealed that his personality type is that of a “conscientious conciliator.”



Summary: South Korea’s national security adviser announced at the White House that U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un by May 2018. Kim reportedly said he is “committed to denuclearization” and pledged North Korea will “refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests.”



Summary: A psychological profile of Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Utah, shows he is well qualified to serve in “the world’s greatest deliberative body.”



Summary: Selection of quotes from Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” annotated with empirical research findings from studies conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics.


Aug 21st, 2017

Summary: Aubrey Immelman, Pamela Rickard Immelman, Tim Immelman, Matt Immelman, and Patrick Immelman view the total eclipse of the sun at Glendo, Wyoming, August 21, 2017.



Summary: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have their first face-to-face encounter on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. … Political-psychological profiles of Putin and Trump.


Jun 12th, 2017

Summary: Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday, June 15, 2017 at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sartell, Minnesota, for Patrick R. Forte, age 51, who died June 10 after an 11-year battle with cancer.



Summary: Former vice president Joe Biden is an early front-runner for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. A psychological analysis of Joe Biden revealed that his primary personality patterns are Outgoing/congenial and Accommodating/cooperative, complemented by secondary Ambitious/confident and Dominant/asserting features. In summary, Biden may be characterized as a conciliatory extravert.



Summary: A preliminary psychological analysis of U.S. vice president Mike Pence by Greta Schleif, Claudia Luther, Lauren Lingenfelter, Kristie Vang, Andrew Weiler, Olivia Musser, and Aubrey Immelman, Ph.D., at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, revealed that Vice President Pence’s primary personality pattern is Conscientious/dutiful, complemented by secondary Dominant/asserting, Ambitious/confident, and Accommodating/cooperative features and a minor Outgoing/congenial tendency. In summary, Pence’s personality composite can be characterized as a “conscientious deliberator.”



Summary: A psychological assessment of Donald Trump determined that he is not a malignant narcissist.