Military Conflict in Ukraine: Personality Profiles of the Principals – Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Panel Summary “Military Conflict in Ukraine: Personality Profiles of the Principals – Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy” was a panel presentation at the 46th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology in Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 9–11, 2023. Following an overview of the conceptual and methodological framework that informed their personality-in-politics inquiry, panelists presented the personality profiles of three national leaders central to the current military conflict in Ukraine: Russian president Vladimir Putin, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Presentation 1 “Psychodiagnostic Meta-Analysis: A Psychodiagnostically Relevant Conceptualization and Methodology for Assessing Personality in Politics” (presented by Aubrey Immelman, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, United States) Dominant trends in political personality assessment date back to the establishment of organized political psychology in the 1970s and earlier, yet most of the classical approaches remain at variance with conventional psychodiagnostic frameworks and procedures. This presentation provided an overview of conceptual issues in personality-in-politics inquiry and described the presenter’s psychodiagnostic meta-analysis methodology, adapted for the psychological examination of political leaders from the evolutionary model of personologist Theodore Millon. See ‘Additional Files’ at the bottom of this page for the link to a PowerPoint presentation or view a PDF version at the ‘Download’ button. Further reading: “Political psychology and personality” by Aubrey Immelman, in Stephen Strack (Ed.), Handbook of personology and psychopathology (pp. 198–225). Copyright © 2005 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/psychology_pubs/49/ Presentation 2 “The Post-Expansionist Profile of Russian President Vladimir Putin” (presented by Abby Goff, College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota, United States) Link to presentation » http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/psychology_pubs/142/ Presentation 3 “The Personality Profile and Leadership Style of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko” (presented by Christ’l De Landtsheer, University of Antwerp, Belgium) See ‘Additional Files’ at the bottom of this page for the link to a PowerPoint presentation (pending permission of the authors). Presentation 4 “The Personality Profile and Leadership Style of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy” (presented by Elise Vomacka, College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota, United States) Link to presentation » http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/psychology_pubs/143