Personality structure in east and west Africa: Lexical studies of personality in Maa and Supyire-Senufo.

Abstract

provided the dictionary on which the Supyire-Senufo study was based, and assisted in extracting terms and refining the questionnaire, in consultation with local colleagues. Lamine Sanogo, (Société Internationale de Linguistique, Mali) conducted the interviews in Supyire. We are grateful to Zanga Traore for later assistance interpreting some Supyire terms, to Stephen Munet for assistance interpreting some Maa terms, and to University of Oregon research assistants who helped rate and categorize English translations of terms: Kassidy Sherman, Barkley Saltzman, PERSONALITY STRUCTURE IN EAST AND WEST AFRICA 2 Yasmeen Lee, Chase Hardt, and Samantha Sheffels. The data, syntax used for analyses, and copies of the original surveys are available in an Open Science Framework repository: https://osf.io/x79qz/

An Adaptationist Framework for Personality Science

“…activation thresholds) by sampling cues that are diagnostic of the most adaptive modes of operation (e.g. cues to being in a safe vs. a violent social world; cues to one's social value relative to local others) (Buss, 2009; Buss & Penke, 2015; Frankenhuis, Panchanathan, & Barrett, 2013; Hagen & Hammerstein, 2005; Lukaszewski, 2013; Lukaszewski & Roney, 2011; Schaller & Murray, 2008; Sng, Neuberg, Varnum, & Kenrick, 2018; Tooby & Cosmides, 1990b). The components of psychological mechanisms can also vary between individuals due to genetic differences, whether such heritable variation is random (e.g.…”

“…noisy effects of genetic mutations) or adaptively patterned (e.g. heritable behavioural variation being adjusted to the variable demands of different environments) (Buss, 2009; Penke, Denissen, & Miller, 2007; Penke & Jokela, 2016; Tooby & Cosmides, 1990b; Verweij et al, 2012). Finally, psychological variation is also shaped by culturally transmitted information and socioecology (Gangestad et al, 2006; Gurven, 2012; Henrich, 2015; Richerson & Boyd, 2008; Scelza et al, 2019; Smaldino, 2019).…”

Agreeableness, antagonism, and mental health across cultures

“…Other recent work continues to go further afield. Indigenous lexical studies in two of Africa's four main language groups, East African Maasai and West Africa Supyire-Senufo, led to a common four-dimensional structure, with factors tentatively labeled Anger, Laziness, Virtue, and Happiness; anger correlates moderately with Big Five and Six Agreeableness (Thalmayer, Saucier, Ole-Kotikash, Payne, & Carlson, 2018). The South African Personality Inventory (SAPI) project comprised extensive efforts to develop an indigenous inventory "culture fair" to the country's 4 ethnic and 11 language groups (Fetvadjiev, Meiring, van de Vijver, Nel, & Hill, 2015).…”

Psychometric properties of the Polish versions of the HEXACO-60 and the HEXACO-100 personality inventories

“…Although the Big Six is more replicable than the Big Five, it is not fully ubiquitous among cultures. The psycholexical studies conducted so far indicate that only two factors are culturally universal (Saucier & Srivastava, 2015;Saucier et al, 2014;Strus & Cieciuch, 2019;Thalmayer, Saucier, Ole-Kotikash, & Payne, 2019). The Big Two factors are usually termed Social Self-Regulation and Dynamism.…”