Evolution, situational affordances, and the HEXACO model of personality

Reinout de Vries; Joshua Tybur; Thomas Pollet; Mark van Vugt

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.04.001

Evolution, situational affordances, and the HEXACO model of personality

Reinout de Vries, Joshua Tybur, Thomas Pollet, Mark van Vugt

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The existence of individual differences in personality can be puzzling from an evolutionary perspective. This paper offers a general framework for addressing this puzzle by combining insights from evolutionary, situational, and personality perspectives. To arrive at this framework, we first discuss three key evolutionary models for explaining personality variation: (1) selective neutrality, (2) mutation–selection balance, and (3) balancing selection. Second, we review four models of personality: (1) the general factor of personality, (2) the big two, (3) the big five, and (4) the six-dimensional HEXACO model. Third, we use situational affordances and trait activation perspectives to offer an integrative model of HEXACO domain-specific situational affordances. Finally, we use these perspectives to provide 18 propositions about situation, trait, and outcome activation (STOA) mechanisms which may help explain the maintenance of individual differences in six dimensions of personality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	407-421
Journal	Evolution and Human Behavior
Volume	37
Issue number	5
Early online date	8 Apr 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.04.001
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Evolution
Situations
Personality
GFP
Big two
Big five
HEXACO

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