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Human Nature and Culture: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective
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Personality psychology is the broadest of all psychological subdisciplines in that it seeks a conceptually integrated understanding of both human nature and important individual differences. Cultural differences pose a unique set of problems for any comprehensive theory of personality-how can they be reconciled with universals of human nature on the one hand and within-cultural variation on the other? Evolutionary psychology provides one set of conceptual tools by which this conceptual integration can be made. It requires jettisoning the false but still-pervasive dichotomy of culture versus biology, acknowledging a universal human nature, and recognizing that the human mind contains many complex psychological mechanisms that are selectively activated, depending on cultural contexts. Culture rests on a foundation of evolved psychological mechanisms and cannot be understood without those mechanisms.
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Biological and ethological universals affect significantly the construction and execution of certain cultural practices.
“What is more, these biological and ultimately ethological universals affect significantly the construction and execution of certain cultural practices, a phenomenon some refer to as”
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Evolutionary psychology: Controversies, questions, prospects, and limitations.
Confer, J. C., Easton, J. A., Fleischman, D. S., Goetz, C. D., Lewis, D. M. G., Perilloux, C., & Buss, D. M. (2010) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037/a0018413 · Cited by 482
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- Authors
- Buss, D. M.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Corresponding author
- Buss, David M.
- ORCID
- Buss, David M.
- Venue
- Journal of Personality
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2001-12
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 955-978
- ISSN
- 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-6494
- OpenAlex
- W2145691995
- Cited by
- 142
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 12.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- evolutionary psychology, human nature, culture, personality psychology, individual differences, evolved psychological mechanisms, cultural context
- MeSH terms
- Cross-Cultural Comparison, Culture, Biological Evolution, Humans, Personality, Psychology
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