Much like introversion or extroversion, "contemptuousness" just found its way into recognized personality traits. And, to be honest, the characteristics that go along with the contemptuous personality ...

Contempt has been fairly extensively researched as an emotion. Psychologist Paul Ekman defined it as a basic emotion along with joy, surprise, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. He took these seven ...

In their investigation of the contemptuous personality, social psychologist Roberta A. Schriber and colleagues found that contempt-proneness, despite involving a tendency to look down on others, is ...