David M. Buss

The evolution of happiness.

An evolutionary perspective offers novel insights into some major obstacles to achieving happiness. Impediments include large discrepancies between modern and ancestral environm...

The act frequency approach to personality.

The act frequency approach to personality is advanced in this article. Dispositions are viewed as summaries of act frequencies that, in themselves, possess no explanatory status...

Structure of act-report data: Is the five-factor model of personality recaptured?

We examined the correspondence between the structure of act-report data and 5-factor models emerging from trait-rating data. Twenty categories were selected as markers for the 5...

Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries