PSCI 1100 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 - The Individual.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 1100
• Professor: Tamara Kotar

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C h a p t e r 6. Leaders with low levels of nationalism, a high need for evaluation, and low levels of distrust of others, tended toward a participatory orientation in foreign affairs: personality characteristics affect the leadership of dictators more than that of democratic leaders because leaders because of the absence of effective institutional checks, betty glad analyzed the personalities of tyrants like hitler, stalin, and saddam hussein and labeled them as having malignant narcissism syndrome those who rule without attention to law, capitalize on self presentations, and utilize cruel tactics. This is referred to as the evoked set: perceptions are often shaped in terms of mirror images: while considering one"s own action good, moral, and just, the enemy is automatically found to be evil, immoral, and unjust, small groups also have psychologically based dynamics that undermine the rational model.