Are some personalities just better?
People with the same big five personality types tend to be more happy, successful, intelligent, creative, and popular. Why aren’t there more tradeoffs?
dynomight · updated Sep 2021 · psychology data I don’t know if you like parties. I don’t know if you’re organized or punctual. But I bet you don’t like rotting smells or long swims in freezing water. That is to say: People are different, but only in certain ways. What’s the difference? Hypothermia enthusiasts have few kids, so their genes tend to disappear. If introverts were worse at breeding than extraverts, then the same thing would have happened. Since extraversion varies widely, we can infer that we’re at an equilibrium point with no real advantage either way. (Personality traits are arou
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