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Many of us might think that our jobs reflect our personalities. This study confirms that belief by analyzing a large group of workers. We found a clear link between people’s personalities and their preferred jobs. Interestingly, when we arranged people next to each other in a circle based on the jobs they liked most, we found that individuals with similar personalities were placed near each other along the circle’s edge.

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This page is a summary of: Personality Traits Systematically Explain the Semantic Arrangement of Occupational Preferences, Journal of Individual Differences, October 2024, Hogrefe Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000423.
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