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Personality & Individual Differences* (Personality Models (Why…
Personality & Individual Differences*
Fundamental Attribution Error
Behav to. Personality vs. Situation
Why?
Individual Differences
Proximate Causes
Mechanisms & Development
If your little, not advantagous to fight (hide)
Malfunctions, pathogens, errors
Ultimate Causes
Function
Stabilizing selection- most ppl display optimum
Heritable Differences
Low Selection Pressure
eg. brown vs blue eyes (neutral)
Changing Selection Pressures
Current diet choices not caught up
changes from old optimum to new
Facultative Responses to Enviro
Ppl rewarded/punished for dif. things
Niche Selection
Conditional yes/no strat. (Eg. periods stopping if not enough nutrients)
Migration & Mixing populations from dif. gene pools
Location based optimum
Sherpa adaptations: blood vessels dilate (we lose func.)
Freq- dependent selection
What benefits: (hand raising example)
Eg. Psychopathy
Personality Models
Disorder: harmful dysfunction
Dysfunction or Discrete Class?
against dysfunc. = fewer birth complications
Conditions Favouring/ Maintaining Psychopathy
When trust ^
Mobile
Few
Why Differences?
Mating
Variance is situation/pop.
Stabilizing selection- converge to optimum
Adaptations to certain problems in society
Teen Pregnancy