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Behav Brain Sci. 2016 Jan;39:e145. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X15001338.

Considering the role of ecology on individual differentiation.

The Behavioral and brain sciences

Tomás Cabeza de Baca, Rafael Antonio Garcia, Michael Anthony Woodley, Aurelio José Figueredo

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  1. Health Psychology,Department of Psychiatry,University of California,San Francisco, San Francisco,CA [email protected]://profiles.ucsf.edu/tommy.cabezadebaca.
  2. Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology,Department of Psychology,University of Arizona,Tucson,AZ [email protected]@u.arizona.eduhttp://www.psychology.arizona.edu/user/rafael-garciahttp://www.u.arizona.edu/~ajf/index.html.
  3. Department of Psychology,Technische Universität Chemnitz,Germany [email protected].

PMID: 28355782 PMCID: PMC5649726 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15001338

Abstract

Our commentary articulates some of the commonalities between Baumeister et al.'s theory of socially differentiated roles and Strategic Differentiation-Integration Effort. We expand upon the target article's position by arguing that differentiating social roles is contextual and driven by varying ecological pressures, producing character displacement not only among individuals within complex societies, but also across social systems and multiple levels of organization.

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