Cooperation

Conflict behaviour is separable from how warmly you feel toward people.

High scorers yield and smooth things over. Low scorers hold their position.

Another conduct facet, predicted to stay steady across relationships — which makes it a useful control on whether the other facets really do change.

Four public-domain statements, answered on a five-point scale. Items marked − are reverse keyed: agreeing with them counts against the trait, which is what stops agreeing with everything from producing a high score.

• -Love a good fight
• -Yell at people
• -Insult people
• -Get back at others

Four items is not many. A facet measured this way carries real uncertainty, which is why every score on this site is reported as a range rather than a single number.

This is one of the traits asked four times over — once for each level of closeness, from your inner circle out to strangers. Our prediction for it: flat.

CONTROL. Conflict conduct rather than affect.

• +I look for a compromise when I disagree with ⟨group⟩.
• -I hold my ground in a dispute with ⟨group⟩.
• +I try to smooth over conflict with ⟨group⟩.

⟨group⟩ is replaced by each of the four closeness anchors in turn.