Nobody's fool . Men and women with Serious personality style are sharp appraises of others. In their ability to critique other people, they are as unhesitating as in their own self-evaluation. No surprises . They anticipate problems and when the worst happens, they're prepared to deal with it.
Serious people suffer greatly when they realize they've been thoughtless or impolite to others.
Oldham, John M., and Lois B. Morris. Why You Think, Work, Love, and Act the Way You Do . But the traits and behaviors of the Serious personality type are not so inflexible and maladaptive or the cause of such significant subjective distress or functional impairment, as to constitute Depressive personality disorder . It is my opinion that the ideal type which is described above is best characterized as serious, and that the Serious personality type represents the pervasive and enduring pattern of the personalities of the people listed below better than any other type. A weblog with a global outlook, containing a nice mix of American, British, and foreign news, views, and politics, plus Internet and tech news thrown in for colour.