personality is a person’s characteristic variation on the evolved design for human nature. Each variation on evolution’s general design is unique, an artful configuration of psychological individuality, developing over time and within culture.
In its full form, personality is a developing configuration of psychological individuality that expresses a person’s recognizable uniqueness, wherein life stories are layered over salient goals and values, which are layered over dispositional traits.
In the beginning, natural selection created human beings to be brainy, bipedal creatures who live together in social groups.
But it is mainly in the social arena, I would argue—in the spaces between people and within human groups—that personality most clearly and powerfully reveals itself