Confirmed: Personality predicts political preferences

“Conservatives tend to be higher in a personality trait called orderliness and lower in openness. This means that they’re more concerned about a sense of order and tradition, expressing a deep psychological motive to preserve the current social structure,” says Jacob Hirsh, a post-doctoral psychology student at UofT and lead author of the study…

“Our data shows that liberalism is more often associated with the underlying motives for compassion, empathy and equality,” says Hirsh.