David Buss

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David Buss

David M. Buss (born April 14, 1953 ) is an American professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin . He is best known for his theories on evolutionary psychology . Buss also theorized about gender-specific selection criteria when choosing a partner.

life and work

After studying and doing his doctorate in 1981 at Berkeley , he was an assistant professor at Harvard University for four years . From 1985 to 1996 he taught at the University of Michigan , then went to the University of Texas, where he still teaches today.

Act Frequency Approach

Psychologists are regularly faced with the unsolvable task of scientifically precisely defining personality traits taken from everyday psychology , i.e. either specifying the precise conditions, for example, whether someone is "creative", "humorous" or "ambitious", or listing all modes of action in full that this trait can should make up. From a methodological point of view, it is just as difficult to determine how strong the respective characteristic is in someone.

As a proposed solution, Buss and KH Craik introduced prototype semantics into differential and personality psychology in 1980 .

Your " Act Frequency Approach " works in such a way that first a group of people is asked what behavior someone shows who has the characteristic to be determined. Then a second group selects those behaviors from this list that are particularly typical for characteristic carriers. The measurement method now consists in counting how often the examined person performs these typical behaviors within a given time.

Works

  • The evolution of desire. Secrets of choosing a partner . 1997, ISBN 3-442-12584-7 .
  • "Where have you been?" The sense of jealousy . 2003, ISBN 3-499-61442-1 .
  • Evolutionary psychology . 2004, ISBN 3-8273-7094-9 .
  • The killer in us. Why we are programmed to kill . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8274-1808-1 .
  • with David P. Schmitt: Sexual Strategies Theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating . In: Psychological Review . Vol. 100, No. 2 , 1993, p. 204–232 , doi : 10.1037 / 0033-295X.100.2.204 (English).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David M. Buss, Kenneth H. Craik: The frequency concept of disposition: dominance and prototypically dominant acts . In: Journal of Personality . Vol. 48, No. 3 , September 1980, p. 379–392 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-6494.1980.tb00840.x (English).
  2. ↑ David M. Buss, Kenneth H. Craik: The act frequency approach to personality . In: Journal of Personality . Vol. 90, No. 2 , April 1983, p. 105–126 , doi : 10.1037 / 0033-295X.90.2.105 (English).
  3. ^ Critique from Prof. Block and criticism from Prof. Moser

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SURNAME Buss, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buss, David M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist and professor of psychology
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1953