Identifies several key issues in personality psychology, focusing on the distinction between
approaches emphasizing species-typical tendencies and those emphasizing systematic …

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 …

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

New ideas in human behavior genetics may be set in motion by construing psychological
groups as Mendelian populations (Tryon, 1957; Thompson, 1957). The continuity …

This article describes nine ways in which biological approaches can inform issues of central
and long‐standing concern to personality psychologists These include (a) developing an …

A comprehensive evolutionary framework for understanding the maintenance of heritable
behavioral variation in humans is yet to be developed. Some evolutionary psychologists …

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

This article interprets the five‐factor model as subsuming variation in normative, species‐
typical systems with adaptive functions in the human environment of evolutionary …

The concept of a universal human nature, based on a species‐typical collection of complex
psychological adaptations, is defended as valid, despite the existence of substantial genetic …

Behavioral geneticists and evolutionary psychologists have generally pursued human
behavioral analyses with little theoretical or methodological exchange. However, significant …