psychodiversity
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]psychodiversity (uncountable)
- (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, , →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.