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Stability” measures freedom from negative

emotions.

5. sit them down in front of a computer

screen: Benjamin M. Wilkowski et al.,

“Agreeableness and the Prolonged Spatial

Processing of Antisocial and Prosocial Information,”

Journal of Research in Personality

40, no. 6 (2006): 1152–68. See also

Daniel Nettle, Personality: What Makes You

the Way You Are (New York: Oxford

University Press, 2007), chapter on

agreeableness.

6. equally likely to be agreeable: Under the

“Big Five” definitions of personality, extroversion

and agreeableness are by definition

orthogonal. See, for example, Colin G.

DeYoung et al., “Testing Predictions from

Personality Neuroscience: Brain Structure

and the Big Five,” Psychological Science 21,

no. 6 (2010): 820–28: “Agreeableness appears

to identify the collection of traits related

to altruism: one’s concern for the

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