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Summary: The Unit for the Study of Personality’s Presidential Election Index (PEI), which has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential election since 1996, predicts that Joe Biden will be a stronger candidate than Beto O’Rourke in a general election matchup with Donald Trump.



Summary: Psychological profiles of China’s President Xi Jinping and Democratic presidential candidates in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, including Vice President Joe Biden, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rep. Beto O’Rouke, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.



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: U.S. President Donald Trump’s second summit with North Korea’s Chairman Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam on February 27-28 ended abruptly when talks broke down without a deal after Kim insisted the U.S. lift all sanctions on the DPRK.



Summary: Sen. Mitt Romney’s personality profile offers a glimpse into his underlying motives for assailing President Donald Trump’s character in a Jan. 1, 2019 op-ed published in the Washington Post. Specifically, Romney’s primary personality pattern — conscientiousness — induces him to place a premium on the character traits of honesty, integrity, and respect — suggesting it is no accident that Romney zeroed in on those particular traits as lacking in the president (and, by implication, holding himself up as exemplifying those personal qualities).



Summary: A psychological analysis of United States Supreme Court associate justice Brett Kavanaugh by Allison Roehl and Aubrey Immelman, Ph.D., at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, revealed that Kavanaugh’s primary personality patterns are Conscientious/respectful and Accommodating/cooperative, with secondary Dominant/asserting and Ambitious/confident features. In summary, Kavanaugh’s personality composite can be characterized as a “conscientious conciliator.”



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.



Summary: The Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics has released a research report on “The Leadership Style of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.”



Summary: Psychological profiles of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un were presented at “Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day” at St. John’s University.



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.”