Evolutionary Perspectives on
						Personality and Individual Differences

Sela, Yael; Barbaro, Nicole

doi:10.4135/9781526451163.n9

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“…Darwin's revolutionary insight was that populations evolve through natural selection: the differential survival of members of a population based on differences in their characteristics. The upshot of natural selection is a discovery so robust that it has been dubbed the First Law of Behavioral Genetics (Turkheimer, 2000): if a behavioral characteristic (a phenotype) varies across people, there will be some contribution of genetic factors to that variation (Plomin, DeFries, Knopik, & Neiderhiser, 2016;Sela & Barbaro, 2018). In view of this discovery, it would seem odd to argue that expert performance can be explained without recourse to genetic endowment-and it is odd.…”

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Beyond nature vs. nurture in expertise research – comment on Baker & Wattie

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Burgoyne

2019

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The field of expertise is mired in a nature vs. nurture debate. Despite what we now know from behavioral genetics research about the underpinnings of human behavior, some expertise theorists continue to deny or downplay the importance of genetic factors (“innate talent”) in expert performance. In this commentary, we argue that this viewpoint is neither defensible nor productive. Our argument is based on two observations. First, there are always limits on human performance, even among individuals who have engaged in long periods of intensive training. Second, grounded in a neurobiological system that has evolved through natural selection, variation across people in phenotypes reflecting these limits will have a genetic component. We comment on directions for future research to advance the field of expertise.

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Beyond nature vs. nurture in expertise research – comment on Baker & Wattie

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Burgoyne

2019

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The Motivational Architecture of Emotions

Del Giudice

2024

The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions

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Evolutionary research on emotion is increasingly converging on the idea that emotions can be understood as superordinate coordination mechanisms. Despite its plausibility and heuristic power, the coordination approach fails to explicitly address the relations between emotions and motivation. This chapter aims to fill this conceptual gap. The author argues that the current view of emotions as coordination mechanisms should be extended—and partially revised—to include motivational systems as an additional control layer, responsible for the activation and deactivation of specific emotions in the pursuit of domain-specific goals. The extended coordination approach proposed in this chapter facilitates the analysis of folk emotion categories; helps clarify the distinction between emotions and moods; suggests new ways to think about emotion regulation; and provides a more natural interface to model the link between emotions and personality.

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An Evolutionary Perspective on the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders

Yalch,

Stone

2024

Journal of Personality Disorders

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Recent work has nested the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) within several theoretical paradigms of personality and clinical psychology (e.g., multivariate, psychodynamic). This has both spurred on additional research and aided in practical application. Connecting the model to other theoretical heuristics may lead to further advances. One candidate for such a theory is that of evolutionary psychology, which attempts to provide explanations of human behavior (including personality traits) rooted in adaptation. In this article, we review and integrate the theoretical and empirical literature on the AMPD and evolutionary psychology, providing a synthesis of the two models in the hope of furthering the research and application of both.

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Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality and Individual Differences

Cited by 3 publications

References 123 publications

Beyond nature vs. nurture in expertise research – comment on Baker & Wattie

Beyond nature vs. nurture in expertise research – comment on Baker & Wattie

The Motivational Architecture of Emotions

An Evolutionary Perspective on the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders

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