Local and Geographical Aspects of Political Psychology

在博士课程中，我将在地理和政治心理学的交叉点工作。在与行业合作伙伴和政治竞选专家DataPraxis合作，我将调查心理现象的空间分布以及如何影响政治结果，特别是在选举地理方面。第一个研究项目将解决在政治心理学文献中的“传统智慧”的研究结果的可复制性。在个人和地区层面，大五人格特质与政治结果之间存在着良好的相关性模式。类似的研究关注道德基础和投票行为之间的关联，尽管这项研究仅限于个人层面。然而，这项研究的大部分都集中在美国和英国的样本上，这些国家在政治文化方面有很强的相似性，特别是在选举制度、经济结构和突出的政策问题方面。因此，一个重要的贡献，可以通过测试的假设，这些相关结构存在于其他国家更多样化的政治景观。第二个研究领域涉及这些政治预测心理现象的空间分布。在这里，文献是强大的大五人格特质在美国和英国的分布，但它再次缺乏国际佐证。此外，没有大量的文献对道德基础的空间分布。在绘制空间分布图时，有三个特征是令人感兴趣的：单位内同质性、单位间异质性和单位与其他现象（例如政治、经济、社会和健康结果）的相关性。这部分的研究将试图得出关于这三个指标中的每一个的人格和道德基础分布的结论。

Over the course of the PhD, I will work at the intersection of geographical and political psychology. In collaboration with industry partner and political campaigning experts DataPraxis, I will investigate the spatial distribution of psychological phenomena and how that affects political outcomes, particularly in terms of electoral geography. The first research project will address the replicability of 'conventional wisdom' findings in the political psychology literature. There are well established correlational patterns between the Big Five personality traits and political outcomes, at both the individual and regional level. Similar research concerns the association between Moral Foundations and voting behaviour, though this research is confined to the individual level. However, the bulk of this research is focused on samples from the US and UK - states with strong similarities in political culture, especially in terms of electoral system, economic structure, and salient policy issues. An important contribution, therefore, can be made by testing the hypothesis that these correlational structures exist in other countries with more diverse political landscapes. A second research area concerns the spatial distribution of these politics-predicting psychological phenomena. Here, the literature is strong for the distribution of Big Five personality traits in the US and UK, but again it lacks international corroboration. Furthermore, there is no substantial literature on the spatial distribution of Moral Foundations. Three features are of interest in mapping spatial distributions: within-unit homogeneity, between-unit heterogeneity, and unit-level correlations with other phenomena (e.g. political, economic, social, and health outcomes). This part of the research will attempt to draw conclusions about the distribution of personality and moral foundations in terms of each of these three measures.