A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality

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  • A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - The Atlantic
    http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771


    On s’en balance un peu de la personnalité de DT, il y a des forces plus puissantes que le président qui façonnent la politique étatsunienne. Cet article de l’Atlantic est simplement une lecture de dimanche amusante.

    I might have phrased Singer’s question this way: Who are you, Mr. Trump, when you are alone? Singer never got an answer, leaving him to conclude that the real-estate mogul who would become a reality-TV star and, after that, a leading candidate for president of the United States had managed to achieve something remarkable: “an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.
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    ”Trump’s personality is certainly extreme by any standard, and particularly rare for a presidential candidate; many people who encounter the man—in negotiations or in interviews or on a debate stage or watching that debate on television—seem to find him flummoxing. In this essay, I will seek to uncover the key dispositions, cognitive styles, motivations, and self-conceptions that together comprise his unique psychological makeup. Trump declined to be interviewed for this story, but his life history has been well documented in his own books and speeches, in biographical sources, and in the press. My aim is to develop a dispassionate and analytical perspective on Trump, drawing upon some of the most important ideas and research findings in psychological science today.
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    #USA #politique #psychologie