Personality and the Adaptive Landscape: The Role of Individual Differences in Creating and Solving Social Adaptive Problems

The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Buss, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive problems; Individual differences; Personality traits; Self

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898981973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372090.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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