The Role of Competition and Cooperation in Shaping Personality: An Evolutionary Perspective on Social Dominance, Machiavellianism, and Children's Social Development

The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hawley, Patricia H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Interindividual competition; Machiavellian behavior; Personality development child development; Social development; Social dominance

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EID: 85081862022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372090.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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