Integration with evolutionary theory could enhance personality theory by generating original
predictions about the mechanisms governing personality. Novel hypotheses about how …

This chapter reviews several major current evolutionary psychological theories of
personality. Evolutionary psychology helps to clarify the role of personality by separating …

Historically, psychology has been characterized by a dichotomy between branches that
focus on human nature and those that focus on individual differences. Initial “grand theories” …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the evolution of personality. Personality
psychology in evolutionary biology is essential and unavoidable. There are four different …

The field of psychology historically has been split between those who focus on human
nature or species-typical characteristics and those who focus on the major ways in which …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the evolutionary perspectives. There are three
evolutionary perspectives that understand human personality traits:(1) evolutionary …

Personality, from an evolutionary perspective, represents a meta-category of the output of a
suite of species-typical, relatively domain-specific, evolved psychological mechanisms …

Research in personality has revealed that five personality dimensions appear regularly in
cross-cultural research and among children and adults. The traits of the five-factor model …

460 BUSS evolved solutions to the adaptive problems our species has faced over millions of
years. Because personality psychology is dedicated to studying human nature in all of its …

Proposes that theories of personality, according to the arguments presented in this chapter,
ideally should include both a specification of human nature and an account of the major …