A single personality construct explains diverse attitudes across the globe

Evidence

It demonstrates to me, as other research programs have, that personality counts. I noted a few pages back that this was seriously doubted following Mischel’s critique in 1968. But here we have a personality construct that connects and explains many different attitudes and behaviors—and not just theoretically, but empirically, often powerfully, and in many places around the world. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 588