Animal personality: what are behavioural ecologists measuring?

By Alecia J. Carter, W. E. Feeney, Harry H. Marshall, G. Cowlishaw, Robert Heinsohn. Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Small Animals, Social Psychology

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Fish behavioral types and their ecological consequences (2014, neutral): “The few studies that have investigated correlations among different personality measures that were thought to quantify the same trait have found some surprising results (Carter et al. 2013; Garamszegi et al. 2013).”
An empiricist guide to animal personality variation in ecology and evolution (2014, background): “For example, colonial birds might be expected to be highly socially tolerant and be less likely to explore novel habitats asocially, while solitary birds are likely to show lower levels of socialization, be more aggressive, value asocial information more etc.”
Boldness towards novel objects predicts predator inspection in wild vervet monkeys (2017, background): “…from multiple tests that target a given trait or by comparing different methods of assessing the given trait, for example by testing for correlations between behaviour in a test setting and observations of naturalistic behaviour (Carter et al., 2013; Gosling, 2001; Weiss & Adams, 2013).”
Revisiting the open-field test: what does it really tell us about animal personality? (2017, methodology): “Our purpose here was to validate the extent to which the OFT measures spatial and object exploration by means of a multitrait andmultitest approach (Campbell& Fiske,1959; Carter et al., 2013).”
Paceless life? A meta-analysis of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis (2018, background): “This problem extends broadly across the study of behavior where naming fallacies and jingle-jangle fallacies are difficult to avoid (Uher 2011; Carter et al. 2013; Dochtermann and Nelson 2014).”
Models of pace-of-life syndromes (POLS): a systematic review (2018, background): “Focusing on the payoff structures incorporated into models when selecting traits will help empiricist avoid so-called jingle-jangle fallacies, when a single trait label describes two functionally different traits or when two different labels actually describe the same trait (Carter et al. 2013).”