surgency

Dogs and all other animals (except people according to the Big 5 personality theorists) have "surgency" (dominance) added as a measurable personality factor.

Archive 2006-08-01 Field Notes 2006

Dogs and all other animals (except people according to the Big 5 personality theorists) have "surgency" (dominance) added as a measurable personality factor.

Animal Personality Field Notes 2006

Children who had high levels of surgency became adults who were persuasive, forceful, socially potent, and likely to derive pleasure from hard work.

Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

She and her colleagues studied a group of 205 children between the ages of eight and twelve, assessing not only their conscientiousness and motivational orientation but also what she thought were the four components of surgency: dominance, expressiveness, attentiveness, and self-reliance.

Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

Children who had high levels of surgency became adults who were persuasive, forceful, socially potent, and likely to derive pleasure from hard work.

Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

She and her colleagues studied a group of 205 children between the ages of eight and twelve, assessing not only their conscientiousness and motivational orientation but also what she thought were the four components of surgency: dominance, expressiveness, attentiveness, and self-reliance.

Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

It will be important to hold him to his commitments but you know successful governance and effective governance is not a precondition to a successful counter-surgency.

CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2009 2009

People with autism have only somewhat reduced average intelligence, but they typically have severely reduced extraversion and agreeableness...the capacities for perceiving and understanding emotions correlate strongly with general intelligence, and emotional self-management correlates strongly with conscientiousness and stability...short-term creative intelligence is basically general intelligence plus openness, while long-term creative achievement is also predicted by conscientiousness (hard work and ambition) and extraversion (active surgency and social networking).

Geoffrey Miller on Personality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Throughout the 1980s, such covert South African units as Army Special Forces, the police counter in surgency force known as Koevoet (Crowbar), and the Portuguese-speaking "Buffalo" Battalion ran a campaign of assassination and sabotage against the African National Congress and other Soviet-backed groups based in Black Africa.

Secret War In South Africa 2008

The five factors were: N, neuroticism versus emotional stability; E, extroversion or surgency versus introversion; O, openness to experience called by others intellect, imagination, or culture; A, agreeableness versus antagonism; and C, conscientiousness or the will to achieve.

The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008