Ecological Approaches to Personality

The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Figueredo, Aurelio José ^a   Wolf, Pedro S A ^a   Gladden, Paul R ^a   Olderbak, Sally ^a   Andrzejczak, Dok J ^a   Jake Jacobs, W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral flexibility; Developmental plasticity; Directional social selection; Frequency dependent niche splitting; Genetic diversification; Individual differences; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921596251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372090.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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