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Type A personality  

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  • A personality type first described by two cardiologists, Friedman and Rosenman, in the 1950s. It can be understood as a set of behavioral characteristics that include intense ambition, compe tition, drive, preoccupation with responsibility, a sense of time urgency or impatience, and occasional hostility and cynicism. [Source: The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Type A Personality]

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