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The Political Personality Of U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Aubrey Immelman
The Political Personality Of U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Aubrey Immelman
Psychology Faculty Publications
This paper presents the results of an indirect psychodiagnostic assessment of the political personality of U.S. vice president Al Gore, Democratic nominee in the 2000 presidential election, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon.
Information concerning Al Gore was collected from published biographical and autobiographical accounts and political reports in the print media, and synthesized into personality profiles using the second edition of the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM-IV.
The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the basis of interpretive guidelines …
Trends. From Pumpkin Papers To Pumpkin Capers: Washington Scandals, Ibpp Editor
Trends. From Pumpkin Papers To Pumpkin Capers: Washington Scandals, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses how in the late 1940s and into the 1950s--an era of both Communist hysteria and significant Communist threat within the United States (US)--pumpkin connoted scandal, as in the infamous pumpkin papers.