Behavioral patterns over time best predict political action

Evidence

Fortunately, the variables depicted in Figure 5.3 that can be characterized with great confidence are those closest to and therefore most predictive of behavior: the environments in which political action occurs (panels 7 and 8) and the patterns that action manifests over time (panels 9, 10, etc.). Those patterns are themselves variables, and they can be treated as indicators of an important further dimension of personality and politics—political style. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1185

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘political style’ as a variable defined by observable behavioral patterns rather than inferred personality traits.
• XREF: connects to: The 2012 Obama campaign applied behavioral surplus prediction directly to voter targeting — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 395