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The 5 Personality Traits That Make for a Better Life

There are many paths to a good life. Some are just more rigorously studied than others.

Across many years — and many peer-reviewed papers — psychology researchers have time and again identified two personality traits that tend to correlate with greater well-being: One is extroversion — as in, the more extroverted you are, the more likely you are to be happy and satisfied with your life. The other is neuroticism, though, perhaps not surprisingly, for this trait the relationship works the other way: The lower your score in neuroticism, the higher your overall well-being tends to be.

These findings are based in what’s known as the Big Five, a widely used model for studying…

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