The evolution of personality variation in humans and other animals.

By Daniel Nettle. American Psychologist, 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Five-Factor Framing of Personality and Beyond: Some Ruminations (2010, background): “It also bespeaks provocatively to evolutionary psychology in suggesting how heritable person variation has been maintained as a function of the “fitness” disadvantages accruing to individuals at either extreme of a significant personality dimension (Macdonald, 1995; Nettle, 2006).”
The humanity of what we eat: Conceptions of human uniqueness among vegetarians and omnivores† (2011, background): “…features that were once attributed only to human beings (e.g. consciousness, theory of mind, empathy, personality) was questioned in contemporary cognitive and behavioural sciences (De Waal, 2009; Gosling, 2008; Gosling & John, 1999; Nettle, 2006; Premack & Woodruff, 1978; Tomasello & Call, 1997).”
Integrating Personality and Social Networks: A Meta-Analysis of Personality, Network Position, and Work Outcomes in Organizations (2015, background): “2002), show empathy (Nettle 2006), and cooperate (Denissen and Penke 2008, Holmes 2002).”
South Korean Salespersons’ Calling, Job Performance, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (2016, background): “Humans have two fundamental motives, self-interest motives and social interest motives (Haidt, 2007), and seek an optimal balance between the costs and benefits of their behaviors and traits (Nettle, 2006).”
Evolution, situational affordances, and the HEXACO model of personality (2016, background): “To provide two examples of benefits and costs of big five dimensions, Nettle (2006) hypothesized that extraversion delivers benefits through higher mating success, a greater network of social allies, and environmental exploration, and costs through higher levels of physical risks and family…”
Common disorders are quantitative traits (2009, background): “From an evolutionary perspective, averageness might be an adaptive trade-off against the mixture of costs and benefits of more extreme polygenic liabilities, especially given the fluctuating nature of selectio”
Motivation and Personality: A Neuropsychological Perspective (2013, background): “From this perspective, each of our many traits reflects the operations of a set of brain systems that has evolved to respond to a different class of functional requirements (Denissen & Penke, 2008; McNaughton, 1989; Nettle, 2006; Pickering & Gray, 1999).”
Agreeableness is related to social‐cognitive, but not social‐perceptual, theory of mind (2008, background): “…Agreeableness, through increased ToM processing, enhances social harmony, but often at the expense of pursuing one’s own status interests and goals (Nettle, 2006); for example, occupational success in large organisations is negatively predicted by Agreeableness (Boudreau, Boswell, & Judge, 2001).”
Leadership, followership, and evolution: some lessons from the past. (2008, background): “This article offers a view of leadership inspired by evolutionary theory, which modern scholars increasingly see as essential for understanding social life (Buss, 2005; Lawrence & Nohria, 2002; McAdams & Pals, 2006; Nettle, 2006; Schaller, Simpson, & Kenrick, 2006).”
From madness to genius: The Openness/Intellect trait domain as a paradoxical simplex (2012, background): “Several preliminary versions of such models have been proposed (DeYoung, 2010a, 2010b; Nettle, 2006a, 2007; Van Egeren, 2009), and they rest on the premise, noted in our introduction, that the Big Five offer a reasonably comprehensive list of major categories of psychological function in which…”
Adult temperament and childbearing over the life course (2010, background): “This line of research argues that individual variation in emotional and behavioural dispositions needs to be considered from an evolutionary point of view (Buss, 2009; Dingemanse & Reale, 2005; Denissen & Penke, 2008a; Nettle, 2006; Reale et al., 2007).”
Motivational individual reaction norms underlying the Five-Factor model of personality: First steps towards a theory-based conceptual framework (2008, background): “…factor's role in human cooperative behavior, with Buss (1991) relating it to people's willingness to cooperate, Holmes (2002) to acting cooperative vs. competitive, Nettle (2006) to empathy and trust vs. self-interest, and van Lieshout (2000) to the coordination vs. opposition of joint interests.”
The development of animal personality: relevance, concepts and perspectives (2010, neutral): “This emphasis on the role of genes in personality is understandable, given the surge of interest in the evolution of animal personality (e.g. Nettle, 2006; Sih & Bell, 2008, Wolf et al ., 2007; Wolf, van Doorn & Weissing, 2008; McNamara et al ., 2009).”
The juvenile transition: A developmental switch point in human life history (2009, positive): “…traits in humans and other animals can be the result of natural selection (see Dingemanse, Both, Drent, & Tinbergen, 2004; Dingemanse, Both, Drent, van Oers, & van Noordvijk, 2002; Groothuis & Carere, 2005; Nettle, 2006, 2007), leading to genetically inﬂuenced, adaptive individual differences.”