Behavioral Syndromes: An Integrative Overview

By Andrew Sih, A. M. Bell, J. C. Johnson, Robert E. Ziemba. The Quarterly review of biology, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Paceless life? A meta-analysis of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis (2018, background): “…common in nature and will maintain trait integration when combinations of trait values yield high fitness (Sinervo and Svensson 2002); and (3) because common physiological pathways and pleiotropic genes are involved in the regulation and expression of life-history and behaviors (Sih et al. 2004).”
Natural selection and animal personality (2005, background): “Behavioural flexibility is often regarded to be unlimited, immediate, and reversible (Sih et al., 2004a, b), allowing individuals to maximize their fitness in the many different environments they encounter during life.”
Temperament, risk assessment and habituation to novelty in eastern chipmunks, Tamias striatus (2008, background): “Temperament and personality are assumed to play an important role in many aspects of an animal’s behavioural repertoire including habitat use, predation avoidance, dispersal, or social behaviour (Dingemanse et al. 2003; Dall et al. 2004; Sih et al. 2004; Dingemanse & Réale 2005).”
Covariation between personalities and individual differences in coping with stress: Converging evidence and hypotheses (2010, background): “One key question is whether consistent profiles arise from a common architectural basis governing different behaviours, e.g. the effect of pleiotropic hormones or genes that control multiple behaviours (Sih et al., 2004a; Bell, 2005).”
How noisy information and individual asymmetries can make ‘personality’ an adaptation : a simple model (2006, methodology): “…MS. number: A10363) Recent attention has been drawn to the existence of individual differences in correlated behaviour across contexts, animal ‘personality’ (Gosling 2001, Psychological Bulletin, 127, 45e86) and behavioural syndromes (Sih et al. 2004b, Quarterly Review of Biology, 79, 241e277).”
Behavioural syndromes and trappability in free-living collared flycatchers, Ficedula albicollis (2009, background): “…referred to as personality, temperament or coping style in the human and ecological literature, terms that we avoid using here to circumvent confusing terminologies) is defined as the consistency of behavioural responses that individuals display in different situations (Sih et al. 2004a, b).”
Studying personality variation in invertebrates: why bother? (2014, background): “Consequently, it has been assumed that selection could uncouple personality differences during ontogeny if early environmental conditions experienced differ considerably from those experienced at adulthood (Sih et al., 2004).”
Boldness–exploration behavioral syndrome: interfamily variability and repeatability of personality traits in the young of the convict cichlid (Amatitlania siquia) (2015, background): “These novel results provide compelling evidence for the emergence in early life history of consistent individual differences in personality traits and behavioral syndromes (sensu Sih, Bell, and Johnson 2004; Sih, Bell, Johnson, and Ziemba 2004; Sih and Bell 2008) in this species.”
Should we consider individual behavior differences in applied wildlife conservation studies (2017, background): “…explorationavoidance (how individuals respond to a novel situation), activity (tendency towards movement), shyness–boldness (responses to perceived risk), and sociability (non-agonistic behavior towards conspecifics) (Armitage, 1986; Canestrelli et al., 2015; Réale et al., 2007; Sih et al., 2004b).”
Personality in Non‐human Animals (2008, background): “Behavioral ecologists and others have also been asking foundational questions about the adaptive function of personality traits (often referred to as behavioral syndromes in the field of behavioral ecology; Nettle, 2006; Sih et al., 2004).”