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Happiness: it’s all in the genes

People tend to be hardwired for happiness, and new genetic research may help explain why. The new research identified largely inherited personality traits that researchers say are responsible for much of the genetic influence on happiness.

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Personality and sales performance

Most psychologists, at least those involved in selection, have at sometime in their career tried to discover the Holy Grail of personality testing: that is to identify the personality of the successful salesperson. Many have turned their endeavours into lucrative businesses, some with much smoke and mirrors, and quite a bit of snake oil. But the search goes on, with frustrated sales managers moving on to the next big thing.

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Your personality – who’s to blame?

Personality is stable after the age of about eighteen years, if you’re a parent you probably think it’s more like eight! Psychologists have found that there is about a four percent difference between eighteen and twenty years, but after we reach twenty we are stuck with who we are.

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It ain’t necessarily so

Contented employees perform well, unhappy ones don’t. It seems simple enough. But now, Nathan Bowling at Wright State University, Ohio, has upset the party. His new analysis suggests the relationship between satisfaction and performance at work is largely spurious, with both factors having more to do with an employee’s personality and self-esteem than they have to do with each other.

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Female bosses expected to be caring

Female managers who are seen as unkind, insensitive and unaware of others’ feelings are judged as worse bosses because of it – yet men who exhibit the same qualities aren’t.

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