What kind of personality our children have

Each person is like a Snowflake, there are not two exactly the same. This is reflected in a study by the Carlos III University of Madrid that has found four basic types of personality in which they are distributed at least 90% of the population.

To reach this conclusion, the research has used the theory of games, a branch of mathematics that can be applied in sociology and economics to examine the behavior of people when making decisions in a dilemma. In this way they were able to verify that there were four ways of dealing with these problems.

Optimistic, confident, pessimistic and envious

To classify participants depending on how these dilemmas were approached, an algorithm was developed based on the decisions made and how these could be framed within four basic personalities: optimistic, confident, pessimistic and envious. Only 10% of the volunteers could not be framed in any of these groups.


The envious, 30%, were those who did not care how to stay after this problem, as long as they were in a best position than the rest The optimists, on the other hand, 20%, trust the criteria of other people since they believe that the result will be good for both.

A position similar to that of confident, 20%, who do not care about losing and always seek to collaborate as the best tool to find the solution. Finally, the pessimists, 20%, are those who prefer to decide for themselves thinking that the other person is always going to trip up them to obtain better results. The remaining 10% that could not be included in these groups because their ways of acting were based on combinations of the previous models.


One of the authors of the study, Anxo Sánchez, summarizes these results of the next way: "two people can hunt deer together, but if they are alone they can only hunt rabbits." The envious one would choose to hunt rabbits, because at least he will be equal to the other or better, the optimist would choose to hunt deer because it is the best for both, the pessimist, rabbits because this way it is assured that it has something, and the trusting one cooperates and would hunt deer without thinking twice ".

Contradiction of theories

The study authors say that this work can lay the foundations for a better understanding of personality. "The results obtained go against certain theories such as the one that points out that humans act in a way that purely rational and therefore should be taken into account when redesigning economic, social and cooperation policies ", explains Yamir Moreno, coordinator of the Complex Systems and Networks Group of the Biocomputing Institute, adding that" this type of studies are important because they improve the existing theories about human behavior, because they provide them with an experimental base ".


Yamir Moreno He also adds that it is interesting to see how this algorithms, previously used in fields such as biology, now offer such interesting results in the study of personality. "The really curious thing is that the classification was made by a computer algorithm that could have obtained a large number of groups and, nevertheless, has yielded an optimal classification in four types of characters", explains the specialist Knowing the personality of our children will help us to adapt the way of educating them to those aspects in which they need more emphasis.

Damián Montero

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