BPS Digest toont 10 karaktertrekken van ons mens-zijn die psychologisch onderzoek heeft aangetoond. Ik geef hier de 10 trekken, check de post van Christian Jarrett voor de bronnen.

• We view minorities and the vulnerable as less than human
• We already experience schadenfreude at the age of four
• We believe in Karma – assuming that the downtrodden of the world must deserve their fate
• We are blinkered and dogmatic
• We would rather electrocute ourselves than spend time in our own thoughts
• We are vain and overconfident
• We are moral hypocrites
• We are all potential trolls
• We favour ineffective leaders with psychopathic traits
• We are sexually attracted to people with dark personality traits

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