PSYC20009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Twin, Twin Study, Pollination Syndrome
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Personality is an individual"s unique variation on the general evolutionary design for human nature" In world of trusting, obliging people easy to exploit for your gain. If everyone disagreeable, everyone exploits everyone: used to explain low but universal prevalence of psychopathy. Social context and culture: social norms: socially sanctioned rules for behaviour, descriptive norms: perceptions of what is typical, examples. In 2003, gathered data of: ratings of (un)democratic practices, institutional level tax evasion, world bank"s control of corruption index: 2011-2015: recruited 2568 participants from 23 nations selected for maximum prv variation. 2003: partial test: participant pairs interact for 5 minutes, behaviour videotaped & coded, administer personality assessments, collect reputation ratings, pattern of findings (focus on extraversion) Life history theory: trade-offs influenced by varying individual and environmental circumstances, simulation study (wolf et al. , 2007, environmental resources vary widely in quality, thorough exploring increases likelihood of finding high quality resources but delays reproduction.
