Daniel Nettle

Tan, Edison; Lim, Amy Jia Ying

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_2872

Edison Tan³ &
Amy Jia Ying Lim⁴

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Cost and benefit trade-off; Evolutionary personality psychology; Five-factor model

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Daniel Nettle’s proposal of a cost and benefit trade-off framework in personality entails that investment toward any personality domain is rarely fully adaptive or costly in the evolutionary paradigm and the optimum personality value is contingent on the varying adaptive problems present in each relevant ecology. Nettle’s contribution to evolutionary personality psychology had since provided researchers a direction toward the development of an evolutionary model of personality.

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Daniel Nettle’s research spans across a vast range of fields such as health psychology, individual differences and personality, and evolutionary sciences as well as in topics such as social inequality, cooperation, deprivation, and biological aging. Among these include a series of studies leading up to Nettle’s influential paper, “The Evolution of Personality Variation in Humans and Other Animals,”...

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Tan, E., Lim, A.J. (2021). Daniel Nettle. In: Shackelford, T.K., Weekes-Shackelford, V.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_2872

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