A Double-Track Pathway to Fast Strategy in Humans and Its Personality Correlates.

ABSTRACT: The fast-slow paradigm of life history (LH) focuses on how individuals grow, mate, and reproduce at different paces. This paradigm can contribute substantially to the field of personality and individual differences provided that it is more strictly based on evolutionary biology than it has been so far. Our study tested the existence of a fast-slow continuum underlying indicators of reproductive effort-offspring output, age at first reproduction, number and stability of sexual partners-in 1,043 outpatients with healthy to severely disordered personalities. Two axes emerged reflecting a double-track pathway to fast strategy, based on restricted and unrestricted sociosexual strategies. When rotated, the fast-slow and sociosexuality axes turned out to be independent. Contrary to expectations,

SUBMITTER: Gutierrez F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9218359 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature