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  2. Evolutionary Personality Psychology
Author(s)
Abstract

Multiple selective pressures maintain and increase heritable behavioral variability among individuals across both developmental and evolutionary time: (1) directional social selection favors convergent traits, promoting mutually beneficial cooperative interactions; (2) disruptive social selection favors divergent traits, providing release from within-species competition; (3) genetic diversification responds adaptively to the stochastic (random) characteristics of environmental hazards such as uncontrollable morbidity (disease) and mortality (death); (4) developmental plasticity epigenetically directs development adaptively along different alternative pathways, modifying permanent and stable behavioral dispositions to suit long-term contingencies of survival and reproduction; and (5) behavioral flexibility deploys rapid and reversible short-term adaptive behavioral responses to transient situations.
Format
Book Chapter
Identifier(s)
10.1016/B978-0-12-375000-6.00390-6
Publication Date
2012-01-01
Publication Title
Encyclopedia of Human Behavior
First Page
111
Last Page
117
Keywords
Subject
Community
Department of Psychological Sciences
Recommended Citation

Figueredo, A. J., Sefcek, J. A., Black, C. J., Garcia, R. A., & Jacobs, W. J. (2012). Evolutionary personality psychology. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of human behavior (2nd ed., pp. 111-117). Oxford, England: Elsevier/Academic Press.
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Figueredo, A., Sefcek, J., Black, C., Garcia, R., & Jacobs, W. (2012). Evolutionary Personality Psychology. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-375000-6.00390-6
Figueredo, Aurelio, Jon Sefcek, Candace Black, Rafael Garcia, and W. Jacobs. 2012. “Evolutionary Personality Psychology”. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-375000-6.00390-6.
Figueredo, A., J. Sefcek, C. Black, R. Garcia, and W. Jacobs. Evolutionary Personality Psychology. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 1 Jan. 2012, doi:doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-375000-6.00390-6.