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Considering the role of ecology on individualdifferentiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2016

Tomás Cabeza de Baca ,
Rafael Antonio Garcia ,
Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie  and
Aurelio José Figueredo
Tomás Cabeza de Baca
Affiliation:
Health Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118 tomas.cabezadebaca@ucsf.edu http://profiles.ucsf.edu/tommy.cabezadebaca
Rafael Antonio Garcia
Affiliation:
Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 ragarci2@email.arizona.edu ajf@u.arizona.edu http://www.psychology.arizona.edu/user/rafael-garcia http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ajf/index.html
Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany 09107 michael.woodley-of-menie@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium.
Aurelio José Figueredo
Affiliation:
Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 ragarci2@email.arizona.edu ajf@u.arizona.edu http://www.psychology.arizona.edu/user/rafael-garcia http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ajf/index.html
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Abstract

Our commentary articulates some of the commonalities between Baumeister etal.'s theory of socially differentiated roles and StrategicDifferentiation-Integration Effort. We expand upon the target article'sposition by arguing that differentiating social roles is contextual and drivenby varying ecological pressures, producing character displacement not only amongindividuals within complex societies, but also across social systems andmultiple levels of organization.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e145
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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