Personality: Difference between revisions

'''Personality''' refers to relatively stable individual behavioral propensities, i.e. the phenomenon that people tend to predictably act in certain idiosyncratic manner.

About 35%-60% of variation in personality traits is determined by genes, with some traits being more genetically heritable than others.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276922271_Meta-analysis_of_the_heritability_of_human_traits_based_on_fifty_years_of_twin_studies</ref> For many traits, the environmental causes are very unpredictable, almost random.<ref>https://www.coursera.org/lecture/behavioralgenetics/7a-shared-versus-non-shared-environment-distinction-Vjh21</ref>

Social skills may be weakly (r = .23) linked to physical attractiveness for the same reason.<ref>Ashmore, R. D., & Longo, L. C. (n.d.). Accuracy of stereotypes: What research on physical attractiveness can teach us. Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences., 63–86. doi:10.1037/10495-003</ref>

Perceived personality is strongly influenced by looks with good looking people being generally perceived to have a much better personality due to the [[halo effect]].<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873083/</ref>

== Personality and mating performance ==

Research shows that men with psychopathic traits (in laymen's terms called ''bad boys'') are more attractive to women than those who don't.<ref>https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/dating-a-psychopath</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Personality</ref> However, it is unclear whether this is due to female choice or male [[intrasexual competition]], mutual domination and intimidation.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Among_male_university_students.2C_only_cues_of_physical_dominance_over_other_men_predicted_their_mating_success</ref>

Positive personality traits like mental stability, niceness and optimism are weakly linked to relationship stability,<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656618301508?via%3Dihub</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emily_Butler3/publication/6952141_Optimism_in_Close_Relationships_How_Seeing_Things_in_a_Positive_Light_Makes_Them_So/links/00b7d52b348893b037000000/Optimism-in-Close-Relationships-How-Seeing-Things-in-a-Positive-Light-Makes-Them-So.pdf</ref> but this is possibly explained by an underlying genetic [[life history]] speed factor, meaning a genetic fast-life strategy causes both relationship instability and mental/behavioral instability, rather than conscious effort regarding personality improving the relationship quality or mating success substantially. Romantic idealization is, for example, unrelated to long-term relationship stability (see [[romance]]). In summary, the [[bluepill]] trivializes dating difficulties by stating it is a matter of conscious choice and that it would have a great effect, which it hasn't. The blackpill overemphasizes the long-term significance of looks by extrapolating from short-term dating. Ultimately, neither looks, personality nor dominance matter particularly, while most of inceldom is likely explained by the extent to which there is pressure and opportunity to [[marriage|marry]], as humans are likely substantially selected to accept their parent's mate choices (see [[mismatchcel]]).

== How personality matters ==

The importance of personality can be easily assessed as follows:

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==Good personalities==

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==Epithet chart==

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==References==

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==See also==

* [[General Factor of Personality]]

*[[Coolness]]

*[[Fashion]]

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