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Agreeableness/disagreeableness have specific meanings in personality psychology. Agreeableness in the five-factor model (Big Five) doesn't necessarily mean bei
by brushfoot 4y ago
Agreeableness/disagreeableness have specific meanings in personality psychology.
Agreeableness in the five-factor model (Big Five) doesn't necessarily mean being overly compliant; it can also mean being trustful or altruistic (trust and altruism being two facets of agreeableness).
The study uses five-factor terminology with participants completing the Big Five Inventory (BFI) and some also completing the NEO-PI-R, so those are the definitions to keep in mind here.
- mjburgess 4y agoAnd according to their source on the term, https://personality-project.org/revelle/syllabi/classreadings/john.pdf https://personality-project.org/revelle/syllabi/classreading... , this isnt the definition. On page 113 we find the following most associated with low-aggreableness: > Fault-finding, cold, unfriendly, quarrelsome And with high-aggre, > Sympathetic, Kind, appreciative, affectionate Now I do not read either as having to do with the picture of "selfish, combative, and manipulative". I find the agreeable kind of manipulativeness, ie., the "Jerry-kind" (from Rick & Morty) just as egregious as the "Rick-kind". What might equally be said of this study is that "agreeable methods of manipulation" are as effective as "disagreeable ones" in aggregate.
- b3morales 4y agoThat is extremely interesting. I had no idea that the Big Five had been formulated based originally on linguistic analysis (specifically of English). It's a brilliant direction to research. But it also accounts for the pretty obvious bias in the terminology.