> Something else that occurred to me: Mark seems to
> be rather high on psychopathy (an understatement?),
> whereas I am rather low on psychopathy. Might
> interactions between two low A people be more likely
> to bring out the disagreeableness in each of them?

It's a possibility. But my personal experience says that two low-A individuals
with half a brain between them will quickly realize that they have to
compromise; for instance, my sister is incredibly easy to get along with. Come
to think of it, so are my low-A friends.

Wait - bingo! *Neuroticism* is what makes people unable to deal with each other.
And Extroversion and stupidity as well; these traits are predictive of divorce.
Agreeableness isn't.


> However, I would
> guess that Trait A is a muddled construct -- confusing
> what might be termed real trait-agreeableness with
> crypto-A and crypto-non-A -- and therefore theorizing
> about its implications would be senseless until it becomes
> an unmuddled construct. (Please don't let that stop you,
> though. Maybe I am wrong about it being muddled.)

Speaking of muddled, what is this in plain English?


--Mark

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