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A Revised Sociogenomic Model of Personality Traits

Brent W. Roberts
Journal of Personality Summary & key facts 2017 203 citations

This article updates a theory about how personality traits form. The author reviews their 2008 model and then expands it by bringing in ideas from evolutionary biology. The revised model adds two systems called “pliable” and “elastic” to help explain how traits change or stay the same. The paper is…

Cognitive Abilities and Testing Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior Personality Traits and Psychology
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