What ties all this together is the cultural ecology framework Jean-Baptiste André and Nicolas Baumard have been developing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This connects personality to long-term, ecology-driven cultural change: the rise of fiction, the Scientific Revolution, the expansion of moral concern.
Regulatory variables (kin density, resource availability, threat presence) calibrate how salient a motivation is. Affordances (a bakery, a trail, an open-world game) are local possibilities for action that only matter once a motivation is already engaged.