Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2010 Dec 27;365(1560):4043-50. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0061.
The concept of personality has recently begun to attract a great deal of interest in behavioural ecology. However, there is also a large and mature literature on personality within human psychology. These two bodies of work have developed independently and at present make rather little reference to one another. The current paper has two main objectives. First, we seek to acquaint behavioural ecologists with the principal ideas and issues found in the human personality psychology literature. Second, we explore how ideas from the behavioural ecology literature might help advance research in human personality psychology. We suggest strong potential for convergence between the two literatures in the near future. Common themes of this future unified science of personality include the conception of personality traits as reaction norms, a commitment to the importance of direct measurement of behaviour, investigation of both proximate and ultimate explanations for personality variation, and a concern with the impact of personality variation on survival and reproductive success.
人格的概念最近开始在行为生态学中引起极大的兴趣。然而，在人类心理学中也有一个庞大而成熟的人格文献。这两项工作是独立发展的，目前彼此之间很少有参考。本文有两个主要目标。首先，我们试图让行为生态学家了解人类人格心理学文献中的主要思想和问题。其次，我们探讨了行为生态学文献中的思想如何有助于推进人类人格心理学的研究。我们认为，这两个文献在不久的将来有很强的融合潜力。未来人格统一科学的共同主题包括将人格特质概念作为反应规范、致力于直接测量行为的重要性、对人格变异的近因和远因解释的研究，以及关注人格变异对生存和繁殖成功的影响。
