Questions to identify an adulterous personality

Dr David Buss, a sociologist at the University of Texas, researched 107 couples and identified the key personality traits of adulterers - particularly women adulterers. The key indicators would include positive responses to the following:

• Do they spend a lot of time looking in the mirror?
• Do they arrive late for meetings and for dinner?
• Do they forget to thank friends?
• Do they leave the door open and the lights on when leaving a room?
• Do they play practical jokes even if they hurt other people?
• Are they unsympathetic if they pass an animal killed in a road accident?
• Do they interrupt other people when they are talking?

The personality traits more accurately predicted potential infidelity in the group than social status or how the couples got on sexually.

- From the Global Ideas Bank.

Alexandre the Savage Dollmaking Gnome

Alexandre never learned to speak, the deformities of his mouth and jaw making it difficult for him to form words. But he wrote extremely well in French, German and English and was reported to have developed a haunting intelligence by an early age. To stave off the loneliness he developed a vast library of books, both fiction and non-fiction on nearly every conceivable topic and from a young age he took to collecting (and by some accounts, talking to) dolls. It was this fascination with dolls that lead him to infamy...