{"product_id":"political-leaders-at-a-distance-david-g-winter-9780197648728","title":"Political Leaders at a Distance: Methods of Analyzing Personality","description":"The personalities of political leaders often play an important role in domestic and international outcomes. However, leaders cannot be studied directly by the usual means of interviews or psychological tests. In consequence, psychologists have developed a variety of indirect methods to assess and measure personality \"at a distance.\" Many of these at-a-distance measures are based on content analysis of what leaders say or write. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolitical Leaders at a Distance\u003c\/em\u003e begins by describing several cases when leaders' personality played critical roles in important political outcomes, such as the outbreak of war in 1914. The book then reviews the history of at-a-distance studies and offers a conceptual framework for personality, consisting of four different elements: social contexts, traits, cognitions, and motives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSubsequent chapters focus on the personality variables of each element: their theoretical bases, the validity credentials of existing at-a-distance measures, and additional measurement techniques that might be developed in the future. Each variable is discussed with case examples of particular leaders and historical figures, research results from previous at-a-distance studies of leaders, and links to instructions, procedures, and scoring systems for measuring that variable. The final chapter brings together theory and at-a-distance research from the four separate elements of personality, revisiting examples throughout the book to offer a complete assessment. The book concludes with a discussion of future directions for at-a-distance personality measurement and research such as exploring the personality characteristics of literary figures, and the work of artists and architects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David G. Winter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019764872X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197648728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"David G. Winter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48998551355647,"sku":"9780197648728","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/political-leaders-at-a-distance-david-g-winter-9780197648728","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}