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Summary: Psychological assessments of U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, world leaders, and rogue or terrorist leaders conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics.



Summary: The consequences of President Donald Trump’s “Save America Rally” speech could have been foreseen, but impeachment is the riskiest response.



Summary: The atypical political environment in which the 2020 U.S. presidential election is being conducted (e.g., global pandemic, mail-in ballots) violates the assumptions of the Personal Electability Index (PEI), meaning that it cannot reliably project the winner of the presidential election.



Summary: “The Personality Profile and Leadership Style of U.S. President Donald J. Trump in Office” was presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology in Berlin, July 14-16, 2020.



Summary: Predicting President Donald Trump’s likely response to Iran’s anticipated retaliation for the targeted killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani, based on studies of Trump’s personality profile and leadership style conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics.



Summary: Amid stalled diplomacy, North Korea’s foreign ministry issued a veiled threat that it was preparing a surprise “Christmas gift” for the United States. How should the U.S. respond?



Summary: Aubrey Immelman, Ph.D., director of the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, projects Donald Trump will win the 2020 U.S. presidential election, employing the Personal Electability Index (PEI), which has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential election since 1996 before Super Tuesday.



Summary: Laura Ingraham, on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle” (March 20, 2019) responds to President Trump’s thoughtless, petty attack on the late U.S. senator and war hero John McCain.



Summary: Analysis of Kim Jong-un’s response to the collapse of the Hanoi summit meeting with Donald Trump and a proposal for the appropriate U.S. response to North Korea’s rebuilding activity at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station at Tongchang-ri.



Summary: Psychological profiles of U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, China’s President Xi Jinping, and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un were presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology in San Antonio, Texas, July 4-7, 2018.