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psychodiversity

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Etymology

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From psycho- +‎ diversity.

Noun

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psychodiversity (uncountable)

  1. (psychology) The variety of psychological attributes among individuals.
    • 2011, Geoffrey F. Miller, “Are Pleiotropic Mutations and Holocene Selective Sweeps the Only Evolutionary-genetic Processes Left for Explaining Heritable Variation in Human Psychological Traits?” (chapter 13), in David M. Buss, Patricia H. Hawley, editors, The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 391:
      Finally, at the sociological level, a renewed appreciation that mutation load and recent selection are important in explaining human psychodiversity might lead researchers to reconsider a range of issues in moral philosophy, socio-political ideology, and bioethics.