B students

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, B students has been mentioned in one podcast episode on School of Hard Knocks (Dec 2025). Mentioned as working for C-student founders/operators in the speaker's worldview.

The Type A and Type B personality theory associates two contrasting personality types with different incidence of coronary heart disease. According to the theory, people who are habitually competitive and impatient are labeled Type A, while more relaxed people are labeled Type B. While it was widely discussed in early health psychology research, the theory is now mostly considered historical and is not commonly used in modern personality psychology. Cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman,