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Comment author: morganism 16 September 2016 11:55:29PM 1 point [-]

Four Basic Personality Types Identified: Pessimistic; Optimistic; Envious And Trusting

A study on human behavior has revealed that 90% of the population can be classified into four basic personality types: Optimistic, Pessimistic, Trusting and Envious. However, the latter of the four types, Envious, is the most common, with 30% compared to 20% for each of the other groups.

http://www.science20.com/print/180407

Well, well, where have we seen this before? Looks like it's not just an altruism gene....

Comment author: MrMind 26 September 2016 08:15:19AM 0 points [-]

That's really interesting, thanks for making it known.
Now it would be really interesting to widen the sample variation to multi-ethnics groups and try to apply it to other situation than cooperation / defect type of situation (say, trolley problems and the like).