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- Title
Integration in Personality Research: Evolution is the Missing Catalyst.
- Authors
DEL GIUDICE, MARCO
- Abstract
Baumert and colleagues make a compelling case for integration in personality research, but fall short of presenting a convincing program for achieving it. I argue that evolution is the "missing catalyst" of integration and that the field is destined to remain fragmented until it fully embraces the evolutionary paradigm. I illustrate the heuristic and integrative power of an evolutionary approach by focusing on the central issue of motivation; recasting motivational processes in a modern biological perspective affords a wealth of integrative insights that cut across process, development, and structure.
- Subjects
PERSONALITY studies; PERSONALITY development; INTEGRATION (Theory of knowledge); EVOLUTIONARY theories; MOTIVATION (Psychology)
- Publication
European Journal of Personality, 2017, Vol 31, Issue 5, p536
- ISSN
0890-2070
- Publication type
Article