Personality and attitude correlates of political preference in the presidential election of 1964 were investigated. Goldwater supporters were more authoritarian, more religious, more orthodox in their religious views and generally more guarded and conservative in their views. Johnson supporters were more maladjusted as measured by the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank and the MMPI. This last finding led to speculations about the nature of psychometric and theoretical criteria and their relationship to liberalism-conservatism. The possibility of confounding of assessment of unconventionality and maladjustment was discussed.
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