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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....
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).