Life History strategy, Psychopathic Attitudes, personality, and general intelligence

Gladden, Paul R.; Figueredo, Aurelio José; Jacobs, W. Jake

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.010

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“…The eighth ALHB scale, the Mini-K, contains 20 items tapping general features of all seven LHS facets. The eight indicators converge on a single multivariate latent construct, the K-Factor (Gladden et al, 2009;Wenner, Bianchi, Figueredo, Rushton, & Jacobs, 2013), which can be estimated as the mean of the z-scores of the seven scales excluding the Mini-K . Because the sample was drawn from an undergraduate population, I deleted from analyses the 8 items of the Altruism Toward Children subscale.…”

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Are extraversion and openness indicators of a slow life history strategy?

Manson

2017

Evolution and Human Behavior

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In both samples, individuals whose CAQ profile more closely resembled the SLH template were higher in Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Emotional Stability than those pursuing a faster LHS. Extraversion was unrelated to LHS, while Openness in the Block and Block data set was actually associated with a faster LHS. Analysis of individual CAQ items revealed some differences between the studies. Generally, Extraversion-loading items tapping excitementseeking and self-dramatization, and Openness-loading items tapping nonconformity, were associated with a faster LHS. Participants in the audio recording study also completed a HEXACO personality inventory and the Arizona Life History Battery. LHS as measured by the ALHB was uncorrelated with LHS as measured by the CAQ. Controlling for Extraversion yielded a significant positive relationship between the two LHS measures, suggesting that their poor convergent validity resulted from differences in their coverage of Extraversion-related content.

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Are extraversion and openness indicators of a slow life history strategy?

Manson

2017

Evolution and Human Behavior

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“…Novelty seeking is also higher in addicts than the general population (29)(30)(31) seekers are capricious, curious, impulsive, and chaotic individuals, who desperately look for new stimuli (18). The majority of these features, including high-risk behaviors, impulsivity, anti-social behaviors, substance use, and multiple sexual relations are also observed in the fast-life strategy (32). Studies indicate a correlation between the fast-life strategy and a lower executive function (33), which shows that the fast-life strategy is associated with implicit processing and can harm explicit processing in the pre-frontal lobe (34).…”

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The Relation Between Evolutionary Life Strategy, Temperament and Character in Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder

Ghazanfari

Lavasani

Atef-Vahid

et al. 2018

Int J High Risk Behav Addict

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Background: Although many risk factors have been proposed for the etiology of the addiction, little research has been conducted from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. The theory of life strategies (with respect to evolutionary causes) has led to a new understanding of addiction. While researchers have shown that Cloninger's bio-psychological model is one of the most important personality factors in the etiology of addiction, there is no research about the relationship between life strategy and the temperament-character component of addiction. The main objective of this study was to show the relationship between these two variables in individuals with opioid use disorder in comparison with the normal group. Methods: This correlational study included 96 participants with opioid use disorder selected by convenience sampling from the Iranian national center for addiction studies (INCAS) and 97 participants without any substance use disorder, who were matched to the opioid-use group. After administering the mini-form of Arizona life history battery (ALHB) and the temperament and character inventory (TCI), data were analyzed with Pearson's correlation coefficient and multivariate regression. Results: Results showed a relationship between fast-life strategy and novelty seeking in the group with opioid use disorder and a positive relationship between slow-life strategy and co-operation in the control group. The regression analysis indicated that novelty seeking was able to predict fast-life strategy in the opioid use group and co-operation could predict slow-life strategy in the control group. Conclusions: Life strategy could be a new variable in understanding and planning addiction prevention programs.

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“…Gladden, Figueredo, and Jacobs (2009) found that individuals with slow life history strategies reported higher levels of moral and pathogen disgust. However, this study did not assess sensitivity to disgust in a sexual context.…”

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Higher scores on the Mini-K life history battery are associated with greater disgust sensitivity on the three domains of disgust scale

Frederick

Keil

Bassioni

et al. 2018

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Abstract. Disgust is a universal emotion that promotes protective behaviors in three distinct domains: sexual, moral, and pathogenic. There is considerable individual variation in sensitivity to disgust, and past research suggests individuals with slower life history strategies are more sensitive to stimuli that provoke pathogen and moral disgust. We hypothesized that such individuals would also be more sensitive to disgust in a sexual context. Two hundred seventyseven participants completed the Mini-K Life History Battery and the Three Domains of Disgust Scale. A slower life history strategy (as reflected by a higher Mini-K score) was associated with increased sensitivity to sexual, pathogen, and moral disgust. Removal of items with potential overlap did not affect the significance of the results. These findings suggest that the K-factor of life history is associated with increased disgust sensitivity across all three domains.

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Life History strategy, Psychopathic Attitudes, personality, and general intelligence

Cited by 127 publications

References 17 publications

Are extraversion and openness indicators of a slow life history strategy?

Are extraversion and openness indicators of a slow life history strategy?

The Relation Between Evolutionary Life Strategy, Temperament and Character in Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder

Higher scores on the Mini-K life history battery are associated with greater disgust sensitivity on the three domains of disgust scale

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