Thursday 30 March 2017

Prudence, impatience and laziness: Are these contagious personality traits?

(PLOS) People tend to unconsciously imitate others' prudent, impatient or lazy attitudes, according to a study published in PLOS Computational Biology. 'Prudence,' 'impatience' or 'laziness' are typically thought of as entrenched personality traits that guide how people weigh the cost of risk, delay and effort (respectively). However, new research shows that people's attitudes towards effort, delay or risk drift towards those of others.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2nAbtI3

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