The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences

ISBN: 9780195372090 出版年：2011 页码：519 Oxford University Press

Capturing a scientific change in thinking about personality and individual differences that has been building over the past 15 years, this volume stands at a important moment in the development of psychology as a discipline. Rather than viewing individual differences as merely the raw material upon which selection operates, the contributing authors provide theories and empirical evidence which suggest that personality and individual differences are central to evolved psychological mechanisms and behavioral functioning. The book draws theoretical inspiration from life history theory, evolutionary genetics, molecular genetics, developmental psychology, personality psychology, and evolutionary psychology, while utilizing the theories of the "best and the brightest" international scientists working on this cutting edge paradigm shift.