In the 2015 UK election, high-neuroticism voters didn't cluster in the center — they went for the Greens AND UKIP. Existential discomfort pushes people to the political wings, not toward moderation. This pattern is cross-cultural: radical ideologies on both extremes recruit disproportionately from those with high trait neuroticism, because ideological certainty is itself an anxiolytic.
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