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I am checking to see if this is a joke :) This is not the first time for psychologists to come up with divisions like this. Not really sure how relevant this is

• sridca 10y ago
  It is not the categorization itself that particularly caught my attention so much as the observation that many people would rather be envious than, say, optimistic: > the latter of the four types, Envious, is the most common, with 30% compared to 20% for each of the other groups. See also: Why are Adults so busy? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12494999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12494999
• tpeo 10y ago
  Well, these guys aren't psychologists: they are physics PhDs doing (judging from the name of their group, Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos) some work with agent-based modelling and game theory. They seem more like econophysicists (or economists) than psychologists. I don't think this categorization is gonna get popular enough to hit the tabloids (you won't be filling up quizzes to see whether your significant other is 'Envious' or not), but it might be relevant to social science.