The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences
Edited by- David M. Buss, PhD Professor of Psychology University of Texas-Austin
Patricia H. Hawley, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology University of Kansas
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS 2011 Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction ix Patricia H. Hawley and David M. Buss
Part I: Personality and the Social Adaptive Landscape
1. Evolutionary Perspectives on the Five-Factor Model of Personality 5 Daniel Nettle
2. Personality and the Adaptive Landscape: The Role of Individual Differences in Creating and Solving Social Adaptive Problems David M. Buss
Part II: Developmental and Life History Perspectives on Personality
3. The Role of Competition and Cooperation in Shaping Personality: An Evolutionary Perspective on Social Dominance, Machiavellianism, and Children's Social Development 61 Patricia H. Hawley
4. Why Siblings Are Like Darwin's Finches: Birth Order, Sibling Competition, and Adaptive Divergence within the Family 86 Frank 1 Sulbway
5. Explaining Individual Differences in Personality: Why We Need a Modular Theory 121 Judith Rich Harris VI CONTENTS
6. The Development of Life History Strategies: Toward a Multi-Stage Theory 154 Marco Del Giudice and Jay Belsky
7. Toward an Evolutionary-Developmental Explanation of Alternative Reproductive Strategies: The Central Role of Switch-Controlled Modular Systems 177 Bruce J. Ellis
8. Ecological Approaches to Personality 210 Aurelio Jose Figueredo, Pedro S. A. Wolf, Paul R. Gladden, Sally Olderbak, Dok J. Andrzejczak, and W. Jake Jacobs
Part III: Evolutionary Genetics of Personality
9. Bridging the Gap Between Modern Evolutionary Psychology and the Study of Individual Differences 243 Lars Penke
10. Theory and Methods in Evolutionary Behavioral Genetics 280 Matthew C. Keller, Daniel P. Howrigan, and Matthew A. Simonson
11. Twin, Adoption, and Family Methods as Approaches to the Evolution of Individual Differences 303 Nancy L. Segal
12. Evolutionary Processes Explaining the Genetic Variance in Personality: An Exploration of Scenarios 338 Steven W. Gangestad
13. Are Pleiotropic Mutations and Holocene Selective Sweeps the Only Evolutionary-genetic Processes Left for Explaining Heritable Variation in Human Psychological Traits? 376 Geoffrey F. Miller
14. Selection and Evolutionary Explanations for the Maintenance of Personality Differences 400 Denis Reale and Niels J. Dingemanse
15. Testing the Evolutionary Genetics of Personality: Do Balanced Selection and Gene Flow Cause Genetically Adapted Personality Differences in Human Populations? 425 Andrea Camperio Ciani
Part IV: Practical Applications
16. The Problem of Defining Psychopathology and Challenges to Evolutionary Psychology Theory 451 Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
Index 481