Most combine two conflicting personality traits – they are both highly introverted and highly extroverted.
But on the whole, my propensity for people-pleasing and fear of conflict (traits characteristic for many of us with anxiety disorders) kept me in ineffectual therapist relationships for far too long.
Given that delaying stigma receptivity can reduce the cost of early seed production, we should expect that highly outcrossing populations express more pronounced conflict traits, and increased sexually antagonistic evolution of pollen and pistil.
Because one possible outcome of antagonistic coevolution is temporal cycles of exaggeration and reduction of conflict traits (Gavrilets and Hayashi 2005; Rowe et al. 2005), it is conceivable that antagonistic selection could lead to acceptance of early arriving pollen, i.e. early stigma receptivity in some populations in order to escape conflict costs.
Several studies have demonstrated impaired fear and sadness recognition in children (15,55) and adults (56 58) with psychopathic traits, although conflicting findings are reported (59,60).
Numerous examples of conflicting selection on floral traits have been published, and several papers review the topic thoroughly (e.g. Brody 1997; Cariveau et al. 2004; Strauss and Irwin 2004; McCall and Irwin 2006; Strauss and Whittall 2006; Irwin et al. 2010).
Sexual conflict theory predicts sexually antagonistic coevolution of reproductive traits driven by conflicting evolutionary interests of two reproducing individuals.
Thus, there is conflicting selection on the sinigrin traits under intra- versus interspecific competition; these trade-offs are mediated by the effects of sinigrin on soil communities containing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) mutualists of heterospecifics (Lankau et al. 2010), further emphasizing the importance of evolution in a full-field community context to detect such effects.
Kessler & McKenna's studies of gender attribution based on various combinations of "conflicting" features found that male-associated traits are weighed far more heavily in interpretation of gender than female-associated traits.
Traits can be composed in any order, but only make sense when "imported" by a class that provides state variables and additional methods to disambiguate conflicting names arising between the imported traits.
