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Adaptive Individual Differences Revisited
Author(s) -
Buss David M.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.00055
Subject(s) - repertoire , psychology , personality , invariant (physics) , cognitive psychology , empirical evidence , social psychology , sexual behavior , developmental psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , philosophy , physics , acoustics , mathematical physics
Humans possess a complex array of evolved psychological mechanisms, only a subset of which is activated at any particular time. Attempts to reduce human sexual strategies to a single, rigid, invariant strategy, and to label departures from a single strategy as maladjusted, fail to accord with a large body of empirical evidence. Personality psychology cannot afford to ignore the rich repertoire of individual differences, some of which are adaptively patterned.