Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1
An Evolutionary Life History Perspective on Personality and Mating Strategies

Jeffry A. Simpson, Vladas Griskevicius, Ohad Szepsenwol, and Ethan Young

CHAPTER 2
Adaptive Personality Differences Revealed by Small Island Population Genetics: Testing the Personality Gene Flow Hypothesis

Andrea S. Camperio Ciani

CHAPTER 3
Cultural Neuroscience Insights to Individual Differences and Personality

Nicholas O. Rule, Raymond A. Mar, and R. Thora Bjornsdottir

CHAPTER 4
Pathogens, Personality, and Culture

Damian R. Murray and Mark Schaller

CHAPTER 5
Climato-Economic Pressures on Cultural Identity

Evert Van de Vliert

CHAPTER 6
Individualism-Collectivism: Implications for Personality and Identity

Peter B. Smith and Matthew J. Easterbrook

CHAPTER 7
The Yin-Yang of Personality: Implications of Naïve Dialecticism for Social Cognition, the Self-Concept, and Well-Being

Helen C. Boucher and Tammy English

CHAPTER 8
Cultural Tightness-Looseness: Ecological Affordances and Implications for Personality

Michele J. Gelfand, Jesse R. Harrington, and Jessica R. Fernandez

CHAPTER 9
The Self in Face and Dignity Cultures

Young-Hoon Kim, Heewon Kwon, Minjae Seo, and Dasom Seo

CHAPTER 10
Personality, Character, and Cultural Differences: Distinguishing Enduring-Order versus Evolving-Order Cultures

Gerard Saucier

About the Editor, Advisory Board, Contributors, and Additional Reviewers

Index