Pathways to Individuality: Evolution and Development of Personality Traits Page 1
Pathways to Individuality Pathways to Individuality: Evolution and Development of …

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 …

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

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” …

Studying the development of personality means grappling with some of the deepest and
most fundamental questions about human nature. Why are we so different from one …

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 …

Abstract consensus among behavioral scientists is that personality is the outcome of both
genetic and environmental influences/addresses three different areas of potential interest to …

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

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 …

Personality traits are heritable, and thus, have been acted upon by natural selection over the
course of human history. Researchers have forwarded two types of theories about the …