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Evolution, Culture, and the Five-Factor Model
1998
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Following a review of evolutionary approaches to the Five-Factor-Model (FFM), I develop a synthetic perspective that incorporates three levels of analysis: Personality systems as universal psychological mechanisms; systematic group (i.e., gender, birth order, age, ethnic) differences that can be illuminated by evolutionary theory; and individual differences. At the level of universal mechanisms, personality systems are species-typical systems with adaptive functions in the human environment of
doi:10.1177/0022022198291007
fatcat:j375dfp72vdfdknlfgw6c7w5cq