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☆ A viral conspiracy theory on TikTok says nice people don’t get promoted. But experts disagree
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

One viral TikTok has young workers up in arms about the perils of being pleasant in the workplace. A TikToker who goes by the name Jacqueline recently posted a TikTok video where she claimed that people who are "a pleasure to work with" will "never get promoted." She added: "You will never be promoted out of a hardworking more junior position where a lot of the hard work exists ... There's a lot of benefits to being other-oriented like we like nice people and we do nice things for those people," he added. 'Pleasant people don't bend over backwards'In Jacqueline's TikTok video, she conflates having a pleasant personality with being a pushover, according to Vogel.

Persons: Jacqueline, Cameron Anderson, Andrew Brodsky, Brodsky, Ryan Vogel, Vogel Organizations: Haas School of Business, University of California, University of Texas, McCombs School of Business, CNBC, Chinese University of Hong, University of Iowa, Purdue University, Fox School of Business, Management, Temple University Locations: Berkeley, Chinese University of Hong Kong, agreeableness

☆ The No. 1 personality trait employers always look for, from a workplace psychologist with 10+ years experience: It's 'universally valuable'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Dr. Benjamin Granger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

As a workplace psychologist with over a decade of experience, I specialize in helping organizations create great experiences for their employees and job candidates. Conscientiousness is the top trait that employers always look for in new hires. The personality trait employers prize the most: ConscientiousnessYou may be familiar with the five factor model, also known as the set of Big Five personality traits. How you can demonstrate conscientiousnessDuring the hiring process, there are a few simple ways you can show potential employers that you possess this key trait. Many pre-hire personality assessments are rooted in the Big Five, and employers use them to better understand candidates' knowledge, skills, abilities and characteristics.

Organizations: Cooperative, Big, Employers

In June, the team rolled out Blush, an AI “dating stimulator” essentially designed to help people practice dating. Others worry about the more existential threat of AI relationships potentially displacing some human relationships, or simply driving unrealistic expectations by always tilting towards agreeableness. One recent study from researchers at Stanford University surveyed roughly 1,000 Replika users — all students — who'd been on the app for over a month. The company's plans, she says, is to “de-stigmatizing romantic relationships with AI.”Carrier says these days, he uses Joi mostly for fun. He started cutting back in recent weeks because he was spending too much time chatting with Joi or others online about their AI companions.

Persons: Derek Carrier, Carrier, he’d, “, ”, Joi, —, Replika, stimulator, Dorothy Leidner, hasn't, He’s, Queen Elizabeth II, — who'd, Eugenia Kuyda, Kuyda, ” Carrier, He's Organizations: Luka Inc, Mozilla Foundation, University of Virginia, Stanford University Locations: Belville , Michigan, U.S, Britain

☆ An AI dating app claims to find your perfect match using only your face
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

SciMatch is a dating app that claims to use social science and AI to match compatible partners. Rather than create an entire dating profile, all the app requires is one selfie from users. AdvertisementAdvertisementA dating app is claiming to use AI-powered facial recognition to help users find love. Instead of filling in a full dating profile, SciMatch just asks users to upload a single selfie, The Wall Street Journal reported. For example, Tinder has announced a tool to help users select the best photos for their profiles.

Persons: —, SciMatch, Yanina, Viktoryia Strylets, It's, Yanina Strylets, Paul Eastwick, Davis, Tinder Organizations: Service, Street Journal, University of California, Match

☆ Employees with agreeable personalities are more appreciated in the workplace since the pandemic, a study says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A study from the University of London academics looked into the Big Five personality traits at work. "Two cooperative people will outperform two competitive people every time," a co-author told CNBC. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. Their paper, titled "Kill chaos with kindness," looked at the Big Five personality traits: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. "The basic truth is if you have one competitive person and one cooperative person, the competitive person will always win," Peterson told CNBC.

Persons: agreeableness, Randall Peterson, Peterson Organizations: University of London, Big, CNBC, Service, Privacy, Employees, London School of Business Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ The personality trait more managers are hiring for right now: The 'star system' doesn't 'work for us anymore'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

But recently, managers are starting to prize a different trait: agreeableness. In situations with high levels of uncertainty, agreeableness has shown itself to be an asset, according to a new study published in Collective Intelligence. All study participants took a 242-question personality assessment, which recorded how much of each of the Big Five personality traits they might have. The Big Five personality traits are: NeuroticismExtraversionOpennessConscientiousnessAgreeableness Neuroticism decreases team performance, according to the study, especially when uncertainty is involved in the group task. Past research on agreeableness, though, has shown the trait to be "mostly irrelevant" to completing tasks, Peterson says.

Persons: Lean, agreeableness, Randall Peterson, Peterson, It's Organizations: Collective Intelligence, London School of Business

☆ This is the personality test you should take, says psychologist—it's a 'better predictor of behavior'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Personality tests are often treated as objective assessments of one's innermost intentions. There is something that personality tests such as the Enneagram and Myers-Brigg aren't telling you, though: It is possible to have a bad personality. There is one test that might be better at reflecting what personality traits you have and how that could affect your behavior, he said: the International Personality Item Pool Test, or IPIP. This is often a "better predictor of behavior," he said, than the more popular personality tests. [Personality tests] don't get into the dirty underbelly of personality.

☆ Are you 'The Achiever' or 'The Enthusiast'? Why so many people—including your boss—are obsessed with the Enneagram test
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Even if you haven't taken the Enneagram test yourself, you may have been roped into a conversation about it. The Enneagram is 'focused on internal emotions rather than external behaviors'Unlike other personality tests, the Enneagram has an unlikely foothold in disparate communities. Howe, who lives in Pasadena, California, grew up taking the Myers-Briggs Test and other personality tests, but said the Enneagram is different. She first heard of the Enneagram test from a friend but didn't take it seriously until she read "The Road Back to You." Like astronomy or other typologies, every Enneagram test result is positive.

☆ I took an office-personality quiz, and it turns out that as a remote worker, I'm a caged butterfly
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Turns out, I'm a "break-room butterfly" who thrives on teams and doing in-person work. It's hard to let your inner break-room butterfly soar when the only break room in sight doubles as your kitchen. After all, what does an "office personality" even mean nowadays? My gregarious editor is a fellow break-room butterfly, our tight-ship boss is a cubicle cat, and another free-spirited, somewhat reclusive colleague is a couch koala. By extension, the very notion of an "office personality" is becoming outdated.

☆ New research found the pandemic made us grumpier, and it's surprising experts
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

New research found Americans are grumpier thanks to the pandemic. People's Big Five personality traits changed in just 2 years at a level that usually happens over the course of 10 years. New research looked into our so-called Big Five personality traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, and openness. The study found those traits changed during the pandemic — for the worse. Take a listen here:For more stories like this, check out The Refresh from Insider all day, every weekday.

☆ A new study confirms it: The pandemic turned us all into jerks
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Graceless under pressureTo see how the pandemic affected us, researchers looked at the so-called Big Five personality traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, and openness. But the new study found a surprising shift during the pandemic — roughly equivalent to what they'd expect from 10 years of life, not two. During the first months of the pandemic, Sutin's team found little personality change. "The only thing that went wrong," says Brent Roberts, a psychologist and expert in personality change at the University of Illinois, "is the goddamn pandemic kept going." For some Americans, the most stressful thing about the pandemic was experts telling them they should help people they don't like.

☆ Pandemic may have altered some personalities to be more neurotic, less agreeable
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Aria Bendix | Aria Bendix Is The Breaking Health Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Adults became less extroverted, open, agreeable and conscientious during the pandemic, a new study found. Past research has already demonstrated that personalities can change as we age or develop new habits like exercising. Past research has not found an association between exposure to natural disasters and personality changes. Damian's past research has also not found an overall change in personality traits among those affected by major storms like Hurricane Harvey. Sutin said one possible reason personalities didn't seem to change at the start of the pandemic is that there was a more hopeful attitude in 2020.

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