Personality, Values, Culture: An Evolutionary Approach

ISBN-13: 9781107451933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Ronald Fischer

Opis

Fischer uses evolutionary psychology to explain why people's personality and values are both similar and different across cultures worldwide.

Recenzje

'This is a rich and erudite work that covers key concepts in the history of psychological thought and supports the author's arguments regarding a model of gene-culture coevolution. Psychologists, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in personality, culture, and evolutionary psychology will want to read this book.' D. S. Dunn, Choice

Spis treści

1. Introduction: the quest to understand the person; 2. Everything is change: a primer to evolution; 3. The big five personality traits and human values; 4. Examining the common structure of traits and values; 5. Explaining personality structures: the relative importance of genetic; 6. Searching for the underlying mechanisms in the brain and the situation and cultural differences in values and traits; 7. Is the personality world two-dimensional? The (in)stability of the trait-value structure across cultures; 8. Understanding structural variation: resources, threats and the power of the situation; 9. Values and traits as adaptive strategies; 10. Traits and values across the lifespan; 11. Evolutionary genetics of personality; 12. Why should we care about personality, culture and evolution?