Owners of high-status cars are more likely to be a55holes
Owners of high-status cars are more likely to be a55holes
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feef

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5,206 posts

207 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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Some research out of Finland suggests that "self-centred men who are argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic are much more likely to own a high-status car such as an Audi, BMW or Mercedes."

Or are you just relatively wealthy and appreciate quality?

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uoh-oo...

J4CKO

46,055 posts

224 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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feef said:
Some research out of Finland suggests that "self-centred men who are argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic are much more likely to own a high-status car such as an Audi, BMW or Mercedes."

Or are you just relatively wealthy and appreciate quality?

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uoh-oo...
Well, you have found the mothership here then biggrin

swisstoni

22,707 posts

303 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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Interesting, and a bit close to home frankly, but I might be able to go along with that. hehe

JonChalk

6,469 posts

134 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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Selective quoting and headlining; also says:

"One of the more unexpected results was that another personality type is also drawn to high-status cars: the conscientious. People with this type of personality are, as a rule, respectable, ambitious, reliable and well-organised. They take care of themselves and their health and often perform well at work."

Hereward

4,960 posts

254 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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JonChalk said:
Selective quoting and headlining; also says:

"One of the more unexpected results was that another personality type is also drawn to high-status cars: the conscientious. People with this type of personality are, as a rule, respectable, ambitious, reliable and well-organised. They take care of themselves and their health and often perform well at work."
Phew, that’s more like it.

JuanCarlosFandango

9,566 posts

95 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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Well I drive a BMW and I don't give a toss what they think, so fk em.

anonymous-user

78 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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One of the cars I drive is German. I'd only say I'm guilty of stubbornness, from that list, but then I guess my own evaluation of myself might be a little skewed!
Today I've demonstrated good, courteous road manners, allowing lanes to merge without trying to block anyone, giving priority to others but also chuntering to myself at every slow fking that needs to get fully in the filter lane and right out of my fking way.

DaveH23

3,353 posts

194 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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feef said:
high-status car such as an Audi, BMW or Mercedes."
silly

anonymous-user

78 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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Is there anything about the seemingly incontrovertible link between PH gammon and Jaguars ?


Pesty

42,655 posts

280 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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Ooh look an anti male study in a paper

What a shock.

Next look at this crying child let’s abandon borders and ps stop having children to save the planet no not you, just the white males.

Women who wear louboutin shoes are bhes who will wreck their friends marriages and treat everybody like st, then die alone.

Chicken Chaser

8,906 posts

248 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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That's why I drive a Honda laugh

sane human

48 posts

75 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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feef said:
relatively wealthy
laugh

NoVetec

9,967 posts

197 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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Only read the article, not the study, so the usual disclaimer that entails...

But it seems that they came to the conclusion that different types of people can and do drive the same marques.

Social psychology had some good theories in its heyday, yet IMO now the field should stick to testing theories of behavioural psychology, which it tends to be quite good at.

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Brooking10 said:
Is there anything about the seemingly incontrovertible link between PH gammon and Jaguars ?
A convertible link.

Sunburn.

Edited by NoVetec on Friday 31st January 17:51

Mr E

22,734 posts

283 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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I tried a lesser marque, but they all seemed to come with with inappropriate engines.

swisstoni

22,707 posts

303 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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Brooking10 said:
Is there anything about the seemingly incontrovertible link between PH gammon and Jaguars ?
What’s gammon?

tescorank

2,301 posts

255 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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Oddly was in madchester the other day and bumped in a specialist car purchaser for one of the largest purveyors of sports cars in the country, he was 45?done Bugatti’s fezzes Lambo’s he said none of them practical and can’t drive at half speed...bottom line it’s all ego but did say 4x4 audi porker range where practical.....so I’m not going to waste my pension on anything that looks like a wedge....

Gandahar

9,600 posts

152 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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I think PH scooped this years back with

"thrusting Directors" cars.



Can we ask them to put a tin of custard powder on the analysis to prove it is theirs?

wink


anonymous-user

78 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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NoVetec said:
A convertible link.

Sunburn.

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 31st January 17:51
Bravo clap

InitialDave

14,438 posts

143 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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swisstoni said:
What’s gammon?
What I had for dinner just now.


pequod

8,997 posts

162 months

Friday 31st January 2020
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I'm shocked that so many posters in this padded cell are owning up to being a custodian of something other than a TVR!

This place has changed ... !!?