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- Title
Human nature and culture: an evolutionary psychological perspective.
- Authors
Buss, D M
- Abstract
Personality psychology is the broadest of all psychological subdisciplines in that it seeks a conceptually integrated understanding of both human nature and important individual differences. Cultural differences pose a unique set of problems for any comprehensive theory of personality-how can they be reconciled with universals of human nature on the one hand and within-cultural variation on the other? Evolutionary psychology provides one set of conceptual tools by which this conceptual integration can be made. It requires jettisoning the false but still-pervasive dichotomy of culture versus biology, acknowledging a universal human nature, and recognizing that the human mind contains many complex psychological mechanisms that are selectively activated, depending on cultural contexts. Culture rests on a foundation of evolved psychological mechanisms and cannot be understood without those mechanisms.
- Publication
Journal of personality, 2001, Vol 69, Issue 6, p955
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-6494.696171