We found that after controlling for attributions of desirable and undesirable personality characteristics, individuals with similar personality patterns liked each other more than individuals with dissimilar patterns.
Moreover, Iacobucci has suggested that Toronto Police use psychologists more readily in their hiring process when selecting new constables so that officers are assessed for their "positive traits" and that potential constables who are mentally ill or have "undesirable personality traits" are weeded out.
Knight based his planning on the circuit of Papez and preferred a restricted resection with the argument that lateral fibers at this level are not of interest for psychiatric disorders; another argument for not going too laterally were the observations that penetrating wounds in the posterolateral lobes resulted in undesirable personality changes.
Moreover, preference for men with cues to good genes may even be harmful because these men often have undesirable personalities (Waynforth 1999).
Paulhus and Williams (2002) deemed them to be socially undesirable as an aggressive personality and termed them the 'Dark Triad' with a negative personality trait primarily.
However, even these instruments might suffer from acquiescence when they use desirable and undesirable poles to represent personality factors, for example, for agreeableness cordial as one descriptor and harsh as opposite descriptor (Rammstedt et al., 2004; see also Denissen et al., 2008).
As for the dark side, it refers to socially undesirable or problematic aspects of personality, that is, behaviors that disrupt our relationships, career, or health.
The third PQA instrument is the NACE scale [ 11] which measures personality traits considered to be undesirable (narcissism, aloofness) and desirable (confidence in dealing with others and empathy) in those intending a career in medicine.
As a solution, Woods and Hampson's (2005) bipolar SIMP places desirable as well as undesirable characterizations at both poles of each personality factor (for an application of this instrument in a Swedish sample, see Bäccman & Carlstedt, 2010).
If stress generation is a valid concept, the people with chronic personality malaise should have reported a greater number of undesirable life events.
Enrichment is widely used as tool for managing fearfulness, undesirable behaviors, and stress in captive animals, and for studying exploration and personality.
