Question

What does the Evolutionary Personality Theory tell us about how we might choose out mates or partners?

Answer 1

Evolution Personality Theory deals with the continuous development or change of personality of a human as compared to others considering a long period of time. To understand the Evolution Personality Theory one is needed to understand the terms Evolution and Personality separately. Personality generally refers to one's thoughts, emotions, motives and actions with respect to other. It is the relation between our character, nature and behavior when one are in public, office or at home. There are four personality perspectives:-

1. Psychoanalytic : It is given by Sigmund Freud. It is responsible for all our needs and urges either sexual or appreciation. Freud emphasized the importance of early childhood experiences of development and personality.

2. Trait theory: According to this theory, personality is made up of number of stable characteristics or traits like aggressiveness, loyalty etc. It is made up of five broad areas:

• Openness
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion( Extraverts gain energy from people)
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism( refers to emotional stability)

3. Humanistic theory: It is given by Abrahim Maslow. He believed that personality is a personal choice and not a matter of nature of nurture. People always looks to improve, grow and learn.

4. Social cognition theory: It was given by Albert Bandura. According to him people try to immitate the things if they see someone to do good. Our personality interact with environment which influence the behaviour.

On the other hand, Evolution refer to the continuous development of behaviours of humans which relates to personality and changes according to the situation. It deals with the understanding of human behavious and personality

We can understand Evolution Personality Theory from the concept of Charles Darwin(also known as father of human evolution) who comes out with two aspects which are also suitable for choosing our partner:-

First natural selection: In this theory, Darwin tries to relate evolution of creatures i.e., how they try to survive the world by adopting their nature of kind of living. Accoding to this theory, One factor to be taken into consideration is that Evolution personality changes by leaps and wounds with every changing situation, One who don't understand this concept, must lacks the knowledge of changing social interactions.

Sexual selection: This theory relates the concept of attraction i.e. how any living being try to turn over a new leaf keeping in mind their physical and social needs .For coming generations, there would be a great influence of social interactions on this aspect.

We can use all above knowledge to choose our mates or partners. Choosing our mate is completely a self questionnaire technique, the first thing we have to see that why we want to choose the partner, what is the basic requirement . To choose the one's partner one must to see that whether the person have similarities or not which can satisfy his social, mental or may be physical needs.