ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to look for some of the causes of the modal or typical personality characteristics of men. Many of the personality characteristics or styles of behavior, such as flamboyance, narcissism, irascibility, shrewdness, and so forth, appear to be very useful for the social, economic, and political success of an individual man in the Highlands. The personality characteristics of men and women show complementarity. Women of the New Guinea Highlands show personality characteristics greatly contrastive to those of men. Many of the Highland male personality characteristics under discussion may not be called forth in childhood. The importances of the individual man's actions in affecting the arrangement of group composition, cohesion, and sentiment leads to the development of a range of personality characteristics which increase the individual's ability to achieve, maintain, or increase the effects. The process of competition itself may exacerbate the development of the personality characteristics and behavior under discussion.
