September 2013
Beginner
320 pages
6h 20m
English
Disagreeable men and women earn more than their more pleasant counterparts.
A 2012 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology analysed data on the careers of over 10,000 American workers’ careers over more than 20 years to test the impact of their ‘agreeableness’ on their income earnings. The workers – from a wide variety of professions and ages – were asked to self-assess their ‘agreeableness’; generally defined as the extent to which one is friendly or compassionate rather than cold or unkind. The researchers then controlled the results for ...
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