Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama
Among the Big Five Personality Traits, certain traits like extraversion and emotional stability are generally viewed as positive and so people tend to prefer these trait dimensions as opposed to their counterparts.
However, these traits are found to be normally distributed across populations.
So that leads us to wonder, if we were to look at it from the evolutionary standpoint, wouldn’t it be logical for natural selection to weed out these traits from the population?This might be explained by a concept called balancing selection. Dan Nettle and Helen Clegg wrote…
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