Short people are more likely to be psychopaths

New research conducted on more than 300 adults has revealed that shorter individuals who envy taller people have 'dark triad' personality traits such as psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism.

The experts claim that people who are unhappy about their height are more likely to engage in unpleasant behaviour due to their dissatisfaction.

Study author Peter K Jonason, of the University of Padua in Italy, told PsyPost: "Shorter people, especially those who wish they were taller, are more characterised by traits that are likely to make them show-off, be confrontational, and interested in power."

The boffin revealed that psychopathic tendencies applied to short people regardless of gender.

Jonason added: "We expected these relationships to be stronger in men given evolutionary and Freudian considerations but we found only scant evidence for differentiation of these correlations by sex."

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