A personality type characterized by ambition, high energy, and competitiveness, and thought to be susceptible to stress and heart disease.
as modifier teaching people with Type A personalities to keep their anger in check
the old Type A would have savagely ripped the package into many pieces
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- This finding suggests that the speed and impatience component of the Type A behavior pattern might be related more strongly to cognitive failures.
- Individuals with a Type A personality and professional athletes - who constantly push themselves and desire to compete and achieve perfection - are more likely to develop the condition than others are, notes Ribblett.
- In the old terminology we used to call these people the Type A personality.
- Closer supervision may be needed for students with high competitiveness and Type A personalities.
- This was back in the eighties when the Type A personality's relationship to heart attack was first being bandied about.