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RE: OPINION #1: Where Humanistic Theory Falls Short
What specific empirical evidence do you have to back up the claim that "females are genetically predisposed to be more open and agreeable than males". I did not read or click on your sources, but if the answer is embedded in one of them, could you please point out where that evidence resides. A scientific paper would be optimal!
Good question. I found the knowledge as a statement in Jordan Peterson's "Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief". It took me a second to find it, but of the several footnotes it directed me - to I found this link to be the most easily accessible: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/ .
Edit: Any quick search of "Gender differences Big Five Personality" should bring up a host of articles detailing the findings in the consistency of male and female personalities.
I will get back to you after reading your scientific paper. Without reading any of the scientific paper, I wonder how many of the differences are farmed by "societal norms" and how many are a result of genetic differences. I further wonder about how much human experience in societies "gender roles" has shifted our genetics over time. How much artificial selection can humans inadvertently incur upon their genetics over a few thousand years of consistent gender roles?
These are just my preliminary thoughts and questions!
"From an evolutionary perspective, large differences in personality between the sexes make perfect sense. Divergent sexual selection pressures on men and women are expected to produce substantial differences in personality traits that influence mating and reproductive strategies. For example, sexual promiscuity is predicted by extraversion, openness to experience, neuroticism (especially in women), positive schizotypy, and the ''dark triad'' traits (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism). Negative predictors of promiscuity and short- term mating include agreeableness, conscientiousness, honesty, and autistic-like traits. Relationship instability is associated with extraversion, neuroticism, low agreeableness, and low conscientiousness. In addition to their direct influences on predispositions for sexual promiscuity and relationship instability or sexual monogamy and parental investment, personality traits may also influence competitive tendencies such as status-seeking and risk-taking."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/blog/games-primates-play/201201/gender-differences-in-personality-are-larger-previously-thought%3famp
This will be futile online. We should discuss in school later today