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Contagious Personality Traits

Prudence, impatience and laziness: Are these contagious personality traits?

People tend to unconsciously imitate others' prudent, impatient or lazy attitudes, according to a new study. 'Prudence,' 'impatience' or 'laziness' are typically thought of as entrenched personality traits that guide how people weigh the cost of risk, delay and effort (Respectively). However, new research shows that people's attitudes towards effort, delay or risk drift towards those of others. Ref. Source 7i.

Traits Personality Contagious

I can see this as I hear a lot of people at work stating they do not have to work hard they just need to do more than the laziest worker so that makes them look better.