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David P. Schmitt

Researcher at Bradley University

Publications -  86
Citations -  14625

David P. Schmitt is an academic researcher from Bradley University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Evolutionary psychology & Big Five personality traits. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 84 publications receiving 13039 citations. Previous affiliations of David P. Schmitt include University of Michigan & Brunel University London.

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Sexual Strategies Theory: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Mating

TL;DR: A contextual-evolutionary theory of human mating strategies is proposed, hypothesized to have evolved distinct psychological mechanisms that underlie short-term and long-term strategies between men and women.
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Simultaneous Administration of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in 53 Nations: Exploring the Universal and Culture-Specific Features of Global Self-Esteem.

TL;DR: Although positively and negatively worded items of the RSES were correlated within cultures and were uniformly related to external personality variables, differences between aggregates of positive and negative items were smaller in developed nations.
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Why can't a man be more like a woman? Sex differences in Big Five personality traits across 55 cultures.

TL;DR: Overall, higher levels of human development--including long and healthy life, equal access to knowledge and education, and economic wealth--were the main nation-level predictors of larger sex differences in personality.
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The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

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TL;DR: The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order personality traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness as discussed by the authors.
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Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: a 48-nation study of sex, culture, and strategies of human mating.

TL;DR: Sex differences in sociosexuality were generally large and demonstrated cross-cultural universality across the 48 nations of the ISDP, confirming several evolutionary theories of human mating.