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 …

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

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Pathways to Individuality Pathways to Individuality: Evolution and Development of …

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

Personality psychology aspires to be the broadest, most integrative, branch of the
psychological sciences. Its content is not restricted to particular subsets of psychological …

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

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 …

Capturing a scientific change in thinking about personality and individual differences that
has been building over the past 15 years, this volume stands at an important moment in the …

Researchers studying personality development have been concerned with a variety of
issues, one ofthem being the lack ofconsensus about the structure of adult personality. In the …

Personality psychologists have long sought to generate a taxonomy of personality traits that
would provide an integrative framework for personality research. This search for the basic …