%S IAST working paper
%A Gary E. Hollibaugh
%A Jonathan Klingler
%A Adam Ramey
%T Tentative Decisions
%X Political scientists have long considered ideology, partisanship, and constituency in determining how members of the United States Congress make decisions.  Meanwhile, psychologists have held that personality traits play central roles in decision-making.  Here, we bridge these literatures by offering a framework for modeling how personality influences legislative behavior. Drawing from experimental economics and neuropsychology, we identify core cognitive constraints for the “Big Five” personality model, parameterizing them in ways useful for crafting formal models of legislative behavior.  We then show one example of the applicability of this framework by creating a formal decision-theoretic model of constituency communication
%B IAST working paper
%V 15-29
%D 2015
%C Toulouse
%I IAST working paper
%L publications21636