Evolutionary models of metabolism, behaviour and personality

Evolutionary models of metabolism, behaviour and personality.

I explore the relationship between metabolism and personality by establishing how selection acts on metabolic rate and risk-taking in the context of a trade-off between energy and predation. Using a simple time budget model, I show that a high resting metabolic rate is not necessarily associated with a high daily energy expenditure. The metabolic rate that minimizes the time spent foraging does...

the relationship between teaching styles and personality types of efl teachers in iranian schools

معلمان یکی از موثرترین عنصر برای موفقیت در هر سیستم آموزشی می باشند. این تحقیق? رابطه بین شخصیت معلمان و سبک های آموزشی شان را در محیط یادگیری زبان انگلیسی در ایران بررسی می کند. بهمین جهت? با توجه به موارد موجود? تعداد 45 نفر از معلمان زبان از مدارس مختلف تبریز انتخاب شدند. اطلاعات از طریق نوع شخصیت معلم و فهرستی از سبکهای آموزشی شان جمع آوری شد. تجزیه و تحلیل داده ها نشان داد که رابطه معنی دا...

Personality Disorder and Criminal Behaviour

Purpose of review: There is a well established association between personality disorder and offending but the nature of the relationship is less well understood. We reviewed the recent literature on personality disorder and offending, picking out studies that examined the relationship between the two. Recent findings: Cluster A, B and C personality disorders are each associated with different t...

Passion and personality: Is passionate behaviour a function of personality ?

Introduction. – Passion as a concept but also as a way of life seems to generate an ever-growing interest among researchers and even employers. The Dualistic model of Passion (Vallerand et al., 2003) has suggested that passion could take two distinct forms: harmonious or obsessive passion. However, the debate still remains open on the factors (contextual or dispositional) that are likely to inf...

Evolutionary personality psychology.