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This study, and the person you're replying to, are using the term disagreeable in the Big Five psychology sense. They don't mean unpleasant, cynical, or snarky.
by Name_Chawps 4y ago
This study, and the person you're replying to, are using the term disagreeable in the Big Five psychology sense. They don't mean unpleasant, cynical, or snarky. Sometimes disagreeable people are snarky, but they don't have to be.
You do, actually, have to be disagreeable to disagree. Agreeable people don't like to cause a fuss and just go along with stuff even if they disagree internally. Disagreeable people are the people who tend to disagree. That's all it means. Some of them are snarky assholes (you right now?), and others are just people who disagree.
"Disagreeable" in common parlance means difficult, overly-critical, and aggressive, but that's not what 's being said here.
- citrate05 4y agoBut the Big Five Inventory [1] does explicitly ask if subjects consider themselves to sometimes be cold, distant, rude, unkind, selfish, or inconsiderate of others, and these answers are all used to compute their (dis)agreeableness scores. Similar questions also show up in other inventories. So, without even getting into any other behaviors these traits might correlate with, the Big 5 definition of "disagreeable" extends well beyond literally just tending to disagree with others. [1] https://arc.psych.wisc.edu/self-report/big-five-inventory-bfi/ https://arc.psych.wisc.edu/self-report/big-five-inventory-bf...
- HWR_14 4y agoThe study defines "disagreeable" as "selfish, combative and manipulative". I don't think the point is as fine as you think. It's not about "passive" vs "assertive" like you claim. Both of those can be agreeable!
- kyleyeats 4y agoGreat point, thanks for making it. It's maybe this very conflation that I have the real problem with.