Personality and isolationism: Content analysis of senatorial speeches.

Quantifying leader lives: What historiometric approaches can tell us

“…First, rich contextual data can be used to examine boundary conditions for a given leadership style's effectiveness (Eisenhardt, 1989;Weber, 1926). For example, Tetlock (1979Tetlock ( , 1981Tetlock ( , 1983. Coding critical events of hundreds of leaders solving international crises, he found low cognitive complexity is associated with taking extremist positions and high cognitive complexity is associated with more moderate approaches to conflict resolution.…”

Developing and validating historiometric measures of leader individual differences by computerized content analysis of documents

“…Types of documents useful for historiometric analysis include biographies, autobiographies, letters, speeches, interviews, literary or scholarly essays and analyses, and press articles about leaders (Deluga, 1997(Deluga, , 2001Emrich et al, 2001;Mumford et al, 2007;Simonton, 1991Simonton, , 1992Tetlock, 1981). Simonton (2003) divided these materials into two categories: primary materials generated by the leaders themselves, and secondary materials written by third parties about leaders.…”

Psychological advice on foreign policy: What do we have to contribute?

“…Personality needs and themes that bear no logical connection to foreign policy issues are systematically related to foreign policy preferences (Etheredge, 1978;Hermann, 1976;McClosky, 1967;Tetlock, 1981;Walker, 1983;Winter & Stewart, 1976), For instance, persons who score high on measures of dominance and power motivation are more likely to endorse hard-line postures toward other nations that are low scorers on these measures. Foreign policy attitudes often seem to be extensions of broader psychological or interpersonal dispositions.…”