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Direct linkGuastello, Stephen J. – American Psychologist, 2009
Comments on the article Leadership, followership, and evolution: Some lessons from the past by Van Vugt, Hogan, and Kaiser. This article offers a fresh perspective on leaders, followers, and their possible origins in nonhuman and primitive human behavior patterns. The connections between group coordination, leadership, and game theory have some…
Descriptors: Game Theory, Behavior Patterns, Leadership, Evolution
Sheldon, Kennon M.; Sheldon, Melanie S.; Nichols, Charles P. – American Psychologist, 2007
Comments on the article by D. Nettle, who has clearly shown that evolutionary psychologists need to focus more attention on individual differences, not just species-typical universals. Such differences are not mere "noise," and evolutionary theory will gain by understanding how they are produced and maintained. However, by focusing on personality…
Descriptors: Evolution, Personality Traits, Psychologists, Personality
Peer reviewedEagly, Alice H.; Wood, Wendy – American Psychologist, 1999
Explores whether evolved disposition that differs by sex or social structure explains sex differences in human behavior. Illustrates the explanatory power of each theory, and reviews a study (D. Buss, 1989) that supports the social structural theory with respect to mate preference. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Dating (Social), Evolution, Gender Issues
Peer reviewedBruner, Jerome S. – American Psychologist, 1972
Examines several issues relative to the role of immaturity in the instruction of man, and how the young are inducted into the species. (DM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Concept Formation, Evolution
