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GASPAR, Augusta. From Psychology to Evolutionary Biology: An Integrated Approach to the Concept of Personality. Psicologia [online]. 1998, vol.12, n.2, pp.293-320. ISSN 0874-2049.  https://doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v12i2.581.

The concept of personality is a complex and not entirely consensual. However, when we overcome the details of many operational definitions, we find the remaining constant - that personality characterises an individual's particular mode of interaction with the surrounding world, conferring to one's actions a given degree of predictability. Conceiving personality as an attribute of non-human species was almost a taboo until de 80's, when ethologists studying the species phylogenetically closer to humans began to refer to the clearly differentiated character of each one of their study subjects - the chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes spp.) - (e. g. De Waal, 1982; Goodall, 1986) and Stevenson-Hinde (1983a; 1983b) and collaborators (Stevenson-Hinde et al., 1980) published the results of a long-term study of rhesus macaques (Macaca Mulata). With the present review, an attempt is made to integrate perspectives that usually never intersect, and present a vision of personality as a biological attribute, i. e., characterising a mode (among multiple alternatives) of adaptation to the environment, naturally subjected to selection, despite being largely elaborated in interaction with the environment and certainly not predetermined.

Palavras-chave : personalidade; biologia; psicologia.

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