The antagonism-agreeableness dimension has a lot of predictive value in the real world (not just in the scientific laboratory). Antagonistic people are more likely to respond aggressively and retaliate when treated unfairly by others (although they tend to care much less about whether others are treated unfairly). At work, antagonistic people perform better than highly agreeable people after receiving an angry speech from their manager (it fires them up), whereas highly agreeable people tend to improve their performance after their managers express happiness for their performance. ~ Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American
