Covariation between personalities and individual differences in coping with stress: Converging evidence and hypotheses

By Claudio Carere, D. Caramaschi, T. W. Fawcett. 2010

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In the past decade there has been a profusion of studies highlighting covariation between individual differences in stress physiology and behavioural profiles, here called personalities. Such individual differences in ways of coping with stress are relevant both in biomedicine, since different personalities may experience a different stress and disease vulnerability, and in be- havioural ecology, since their adaptive value and evolutionary maintenance are the subject of debate. However, the precise way in which individual stress differences and personalities are linked is unclear. Here we provide an updated overview of this covaria- tion across different species and taxa, consider its functional significance and present working hypotheses for how behavioural and physiological responses to stress might be causally linked, affecting life-history traits such as dispersal and life-span (Current Zoology 56 (6): 728-740, 2010).

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecological Modeling

1. G. Markó
2. G. Herczeg
3. J. Koprowski
4. L. Garamszegi
5. M. Merrick
6. Roger Mundry
7. R. Freckleton

In Ecology

1. G. Markó
2. G. Herczeg
3. J. Koprowski
4. L. Garamszegi
5. M. Merrick
6. Claudio Carere
7. C. Locurto
8. Denis Réale

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. L. Garamszegi
2. G. Markó
3. G. Herczeg
4. Claudio Carere
5. Denis Réale
6. C. Locurto
7. J. Koprowski
8. M. Merrick

Citations in the corpus

• Should we consider individual behavior differences in applied wildlife conservation studies (2017, background): “…with increased risk of cardiovascular problems, decreased immune response, potential for lowered reproductive success, body mass, and growth (Carere et al., 2010; Lupien et al., 2009; von der Ohe and Servheen, 2002), exhaustion, hyperthermia, muscle myopathy, rhabdomyolysis, and necrosis…”
• Testing for the presence of coping styles in a wild mammal (2013, background): “This contradicts some results from studies that have found links between cortisol and behavioural responses (e.g. Veenema et al. 2003; Cockrem 2007; Carere et al. 2010).”
• Interaction between animal personality and animal cognition (2011, background): “Additionally, a number of neuroendocrine correlates of personality types have been identified in animals that appear to correspond to those identified in humans (Koolhaas et al., 1999; Koolhaas et al., 2010; Carere et al., 2010).”
• A meta-analysis of correlated behaviours with implications for behavioural syndromes: mean effect size, publication bias, phylogenetic effects and the role of mediator variables (2012, background): “Some studies have discovered that genes and (stress) hormones can be involved in the proximate regulation of consistent behaviours (Fidler et al. 2007; Carere et al. 2010).”