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Tell Me Who You Vote for, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are? The Associations of Political Orientation with Personality and Prosocial Behavior

Politics has become more important for the whole world these days. For instance, due to the pandemic or political transgressive and innovative programs that not everybody likes. The differences between one and other parties are more evident each time, and this produces a polarization of them and of the people that give them their support. That is why political psychology has been paying attention to this topic the last few months. This area of psychology studies political communication, intergroup-relations in and out the parties, but besides, it also dedicates its time and efforts to discover whether a person’s political orientation or “ideology” can be treated as a trait with potential explanatory power for his/her behavior in and outside the political sphere. ….[READ]