The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 2010
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- Title
- The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0195372093
- ISBN 13
- 9780195372090
- Edition
- 1st Edition
In the first of three sections, the authors analyze personality and the adaptive landscape; here, the authors offer a novel conceptual framework for examing "personality assessment adaptations." Because individuals in a social environment have momentous consquences for creating and solving adaptive problems, humans have evolved "difference-detecting mechanisms" designed to make crucial social decisions such as mate selection, friend selection, kin investment, coalition formation, and hierarchy negotiation. In the second section, the authors examine developmental and life-history theoretical perspectives to explore the origins and development of personality over the lifespan. The third section focuses on the relatively new field of evolutionary genetics and explores which of the major evolutionary forces--such as balancing selection, mutation, co-evolutionary arms races, and drift--are responsible for the origins of personality and individual differences. Existing as a seminal work in the newly emerging evolutionary psychology field, this book is a "must-read" for anyone invested in the development of psychology as a field.
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About the Author
Professor of Evolutionary Psychology
University of Texas at Austin. Buss received the American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology; the APA G. Stanley Hall Award; and the APA Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Award
Patricia H. Hawley:
Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology and Social Psychology at the University of Kansas.
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