Our personality's dark side revealed

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3025, 2015, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There's a trait that some of people's most memorable villains have in spades: Machiavellianism. Yet until recently this has been overlooked by most of personality science. Psychologists have long thought that measuring someone on a scale of just five personality dimensions--agreeableness, extroversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness and openness to new experiences--can capture all the variation in behavior and attitude seen in the human race. But it turns out that they may have been overlooking a crucial sixth personality trait--and it's not a pretty one. It's known as honesty-humility, but it's people who are lacking in those two qualities that the measure is designed to pick out.