Facts about Agreeableness

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   One of the Big Five personality traits, agreeableness encompasses facets such as trust, altruism, compliance, modesty, and tender-mindedness.

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   Agreeableness correlates with a 19 percent higher likelihood of being exploited in financial transactions according to a 2018 study from the University of Pennsylvania analyzing 3,000 consumer fraud cases.

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   Across 42 longitudinal studies, agreeable individuals demonstrated 28 percent higher rates of maintaining long-term friendships over 20-year periods compared to disagreeable counterparts.

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   Highly agreeable employees report 31 percent greater job satisfaction scores in workplace surveys across Fortune 500 companies despite earning lower salaries than their less agreeable counterparts.

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   Cooperative tasks completed by highly agreeable participants show 34 percent better outcomes when paired with disagreeable partners compared to same-agreeableness pairings, according to a 2019 organizational psychology meta-analysis of 127 studies.

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   People high in agreeableness earn approximately 5-10 percent less over their lifetime than those with lower agreeableness scores, according to economic research analyzing salary data across 50,000 workers.

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   Individuals scoring high in agreeableness show 23 percent greater activation in brain regions associated with empathy during fMRI studies conducted at Stanford University.

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