Denis Réale and Niels J. Dingemanse
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195372090
- eISBN:
- 9780199893485
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372090.003.0014
- Subject:
- Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter discusses the potential benefit of using the selectionist approach to study human and animal personality traits. It first briefly introduces the selectionist approach, describes the ...
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This chapter discusses the potential benefit of using the selectionist approach to study human and animal personality traits. It first briefly introduces the selectionist approach, describes the methods proposed to run multivariate selection analyses, and follows with a review of the most recent results showing how animal personality scientists are beginning to apply this method to test the fit of evolutionary scenarios for the maintenance of variation in personality traits. Finally, it reviews the evidence from recent studies on human personality suggesting that selection can indeed affect personality dimensions. Not every scenario will apply equally to humans and animals. However, it is assumed that humans and many animals broadly face the same types of ecological challenges that they must cope with. Therefore, studies on both human and non-human animals are likely to provide a general explanation for the maintenance of individual variance in personality traits.Less
This chapter discusses the potential benefit of using the selectionist approach to study human and animal personality traits. It first briefly introduces the selectionist approach, describes the methods proposed to run multivariate selection analyses, and follows with a review of the most recent results showing how animal personality scientists are beginning to apply this method to test the fit of evolutionary scenarios for the maintenance of variation in personality traits. Finally, it reviews the evidence from recent studies on human personality suggesting that selection can indeed affect personality dimensions. Not every scenario will apply equally to humans and animals. However, it is assumed that humans and many animals broadly face the same types of ecological challenges that they must cope with. Therefore, studies on both human and non-human animals are likely to provide a general explanation for the maintenance of individual variance in personality traits.
Kees Van Oers and David L. Sinn
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226922058
- eISBN:
- 9780226922065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226922065.003.0007
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Behavior / Behavioral Ecology
This chapter addresses the quantitative and molecular genetics of animal personality. It discusses the role of additive and nonadditive genetic effects, genetic correlations between animal ...
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This chapter addresses the quantitative and molecular genetics of animal personality. It discusses the role of additive and nonadditive genetic effects, genetic correlations between animal personality traits, and modes of development and heritability. The chapter also presents a formal meta-analysis of published studies on the heritability of personality estimates of animal traits.Less
This chapter addresses the quantitative and molecular genetics of animal personality. It discusses the role of additive and nonadditive genetic effects, genetic correlations between animal personality traits, and modes of development and heritability. The chapter also presents a formal meta-analysis of published studies on the heritability of personality estimates of animal traits.
Samuel D. Gosling and Pranjal H. Mehta
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226922058
- eISBN:
- 9780226922065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226922065.003.0006
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Behavior / Behavioral Ecology
This chapter discusses the benefits of animal personality studies for understanding human personality. It first reviews animal personality studies across different species and then illustrates the ...
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This chapter discusses the benefits of animal personality studies for understanding human personality. It first reviews animal personality studies across different species and then illustrates the benefits of taking a comparative perspective in personality research. The chapter also discusses some basic principles for making cross-species comparisons in personality psychology.Less
This chapter discusses the benefits of animal personality studies for understanding human personality. It first reviews animal personality studies across different species and then illustrates the benefits of taking a comparative perspective in personality research. The chapter also discusses some basic principles for making cross-species comparisons in personality psychology.
Claudio Carere and Dario Maestripieri (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226922058
- eISBN:
- 9780226922065
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226922065.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Behavior / Behavioral Ecology
Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they will assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and ...
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Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they will assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals—from invertebrates to monkeys and apes—behave in consistently different ways, meeting the criteria for what many define as personality. But why the differences, and how are personalities shaped by genes and environment? How did they evolve? The essays in this book reveal that there is much to learn from our furred and feathered friends. The study of animal personality is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in behavioral and evolutionary biology. Here the authors, along with a host of scholars from fields as diverse as ecology, genetics, endocrinology, neuroscience, and psychology, provide a comprehensive overview of the current research on animal personality. Grouped into thematic sections, chapters approach the topic with empirical and theoretical material, and show that to fully understand why personality exists, we must consider the evolutionary processes which give rise to personality, the ecological correlates of personality differences, and the physiological mechanisms underlying personality variation.Less
Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they will assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals—from invertebrates to monkeys and apes—behave in consistently different ways, meeting the criteria for what many define as personality. But why the differences, and how are personalities shaped by genes and environment? How did they evolve? The essays in this book reveal that there is much to learn from our furred and feathered friends. The study of animal personality is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in behavioral and evolutionary biology. Here the authors, along with a host of scholars from fields as diverse as ecology, genetics, endocrinology, neuroscience, and psychology, provide a comprehensive overview of the current research on animal personality. Grouped into thematic sections, chapters approach the topic with empirical and theoretical material, and show that to fully understand why personality exists, we must consider the evolutionary processes which give rise to personality, the ecological correlates of personality differences, and the physiological mechanisms underlying personality variation.
Alexander D. M. Wilson and Jens Krause
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199679041
- eISBN:
- 9780191794094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679041.003.0006
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
Over the last decade, the study of consistent individual-level differences in behaviour, or animal personality, has become a subject of significant research growth. This ongoing interest in ...
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Over the last decade, the study of consistent individual-level differences in behaviour, or animal personality, has become a subject of significant research growth. This ongoing interest in personality traits is likely attributable to the diverse range of taxa as well as ecological contexts in which personality has been shown to be mechanistically involved. Despite this research interest, surprisingly little is known about the role of personality in terms of complex social interaction dynamics and group-level interactions such as those characterized by social networks. The aim of this chapter is to highlight recent advances in the integration of personality and network analysis research and provide an overview of areas of current and future research promise. This chapter discusses the potential importance of key individuals, or individuals with particular behavioural characteristics (i.e. behavioural types) in animal social networks as well as the need for considering networks and personality over ontogeny and related processes. Lastly, this chapter offers new directions and perspectives for future research on this exciting topic.Less
Over the last decade, the study of consistent individual-level differences in behaviour, or animal personality, has become a subject of significant research growth. This ongoing interest in personality traits is likely attributable to the diverse range of taxa as well as ecological contexts in which personality has been shown to be mechanistically involved. Despite this research interest, surprisingly little is known about the role of personality in terms of complex social interaction dynamics and group-level interactions such as those characterized by social networks. The aim of this chapter is to highlight recent advances in the integration of personality and network analysis research and provide an overview of areas of current and future research promise. This chapter discusses the potential importance of key individuals, or individuals with particular behavioural characteristics (i.e. behavioural types) in animal social networks as well as the need for considering networks and personality over ontogeny and related processes. Lastly, this chapter offers new directions and perspectives for future research on this exciting topic.
Max Wolf, G. Sander Van Doorn, Olof Leimar, and Franz J. Weissing
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226922058
- eISBN:
- 9780226922065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226922065.003.0010
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Behavior / Behavioral Ecology
This chapter focuses on evolutionary causes of animal personalities. First, it discusses the causes of variation within populations, and, in particular, describes how state differences, ...
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This chapter focuses on evolutionary causes of animal personalities. First, it discusses the causes of variation within populations, and, in particular, describes how state differences, frequency-dependent selection, spatiotemporal variation in the environment, and non-equilibrium dynamics can cause variation in behavior. The chapter also examines the role of the architecture of behavior, stable state variables, and social conventions in causing adaptive behavioral correlations.Less
This chapter focuses on evolutionary causes of animal personalities. First, it discusses the causes of variation within populations, and, in particular, describes how state differences, frequency-dependent selection, spatiotemporal variation in the environment, and non-equilibrium dynamics can cause variation in behavior. The chapter also examines the role of the architecture of behavior, stable state variables, and social conventions in causing adaptive behavioral correlations.
Doretta Caramaschi, Claudio Carere, Andrea Sgoifo, and Jaap M. Koolhaas
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226922058
- eISBN:
- 9780226922065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226922065.003.0013
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Behavior / Behavioral Ecology
This chapter explores the relationship between physiological and behavioral traits commonly considered in animal personality assessments, discussing the physiological responses to stress and the ...
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This chapter explores the relationship between physiological and behavioral traits commonly considered in animal personality assessments, discussing the physiological responses to stress and the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA), the sympatho-adrenomedullary pathway (SAM), and the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis (HPG). It also presents evidence on linking the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine, as well as cortical brain structures such as the hippocampus, to behavioral variations.Less
This chapter explores the relationship between physiological and behavioral traits commonly considered in animal personality assessments, discussing the physiological responses to stress and the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA), the sympatho-adrenomedullary pathway (SAM), and the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis (HPG). It also presents evidence on linking the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine, as well as cortical brain structures such as the hippocampus, to behavioral variations.
Niels J. Dingemanse and Ned A. Dochtermann
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199674237
- eISBN:
- 9780191779275
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674237.003.0004
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics, Ecology
Emerging interest on the part of behavioural ecologists into the causes and consequences of individually repeatable behaviour substantially crosses over methodology and theory well developed in the ...
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Emerging interest on the part of behavioural ecologists into the causes and consequences of individually repeatable behaviour substantially crosses over methodology and theory well developed in the field of quantitative genetics. Unfortunately, how behavioural ecological concepts translate to quantitative genetic parameters has been under-recognized by researchers in both groups. In this chapter, this overlap is discussed, behavioural ecology terms like ‘animal personality’ and ‘behavioural syndrome’ explicitly defined as quantitative genetic parameters, and adaptive explanations for between-individual behavioural variation are also examined. In addition, this chapter talks about what is known about patterns of behavioural heritabilities, additive genetic correlations between behaviours, and how behavioural correlations might constrain evolutionary responses. Finally, this chapter describes ways in which theory and empirical research in behavioural ecology might inform attempts among the broader quantitative genetics community to understand how and why variation is distributed.Less
Emerging interest on the part of behavioural ecologists into the causes and consequences of individually repeatable behaviour substantially crosses over methodology and theory well developed in the field of quantitative genetics. Unfortunately, how behavioural ecological concepts translate to quantitative genetic parameters has been under-recognized by researchers in both groups. In this chapter, this overlap is discussed, behavioural ecology terms like ‘animal personality’ and ‘behavioural syndrome’ explicitly defined as quantitative genetic parameters, and adaptive explanations for between-individual behavioural variation are also examined. In addition, this chapter talks about what is known about patterns of behavioural heritabilities, additive genetic correlations between behaviours, and how behavioural correlations might constrain evolutionary responses. Finally, this chapter describes ways in which theory and empirical research in behavioural ecology might inform attempts among the broader quantitative genetics community to understand how and why variation is distributed.
