From mice to men: what can we learn about personality from animal research?

By Samuel D. Gosling. Psychological bulletin, 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Genetics, Small Animals

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Behavioural profile predicts dominance status in mountain chickadees, Poecile gambeli (2009, neutral): “…various measures of 'boldness' or 'exploration' are interchangeable, an assumption that seems to be fairly pervasive in reviews and meta-analyses dealing with the ecological implications of behavioural profile or temperament in animals (e.g. Gosling 2001; Reale et al. 2007; Smith & Blumstein 2008).”
Pairs of extreme avian personalities have highest reproductive success (2005, background): “This variation in behaviour is often not simply noise around a certain optimal strategy, but is highly repeatable within individuals (Clark & Ehlinger 1987; Wilson et al . 1994; Gosling 2001).”
Sources of individual shy-bold variations in antipredator behaviour of male Iberian rock lizards (2005, background): “One important dimension of behavioural variation between individuals is the shy–bold continuum (Wilson et al. 1993, 1994; Coleman & Wilson 1998; Gosling 2001), boldness being defined as the willingness to take risks in novel or challenging situations (Wilson et al. 1994; Boissy 1995).”
Behavioural testing in dogs: A review of methodology in search for standardisation (2006, background): “…behavioural responses can be measured by either objectively noting frequencies and durations, or scoring them with a number grading the intensity of responses (Svartberg and Forkman, 2002), or subjectively noting them according to the observer’s experience (Gosling, 2001; Ruefenacht et al., 2002).”
How not to measure boldness: novel object and antipredator responses are not the same in wild baboons (2012, neutral): “…et al. 2005) and novel environments (Brown & Braithwaite 2004; Dingemanse et al. 2004), and by observer assessment under natural conditions (Wielebnowski 1999; Bergvall et al. 2011; Carter et al. 2012; these methods are reviewed in Gosling 2001; Vazire et al. 2007; Uher 2008a; Toms et al. 2010).”
A Methodological Review of Personality-Related Studies in Fish: Focus on the Shy-Bold Axis of Behavior (2010, background): “Those studying higher order species such as primates (as well as some lower order species) have taken routes more closely comparable with human psychologists which are based on hierarchical models of personality (Gosling, 2001; Itoh, 2002; Zuckerman, 1992).”
Personality in captivity reflects personality in the wild (2010, background): “Where differences in behaviour between individuals are stable across a range of situations or contexts, we refer to this variation as ‘personality’ (Gosling 2001).”
The relation between dominance and exploratory behavior is context-dependent in wild great tits (2004, background): “Behavioral responses to different stimuli are further often correlated (Huntingford, 1976; Koolhaas et al., 1999; van Oers et al., 2004a) and are therefore commonly regarded as individual differences in temperament or personality ( Gosling, 2001; Gosling and John, 1999).”
In situ examination of boldness-shyness traits in the tropical poeciliid, Brachyraphis episcopi (2005, background): “These behavioural extremes correspond closely to the shyness–boldness spectrum, recognizable psychological states that exist in a diverse suite of taxa, from crustaceans to humans (Wilson et al. 1994; Gosling 2001).”
Personality in Non‐human Animals (2008, methodology): “In the most comprehensive review to date, Gosling (2001) identified 187 personality studies of one kind or another in 64 different species.”
Behavioural differences between individuals and two populations of stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (2004, background): “In other words, there is accumulating evidence for correlations between individual behaviours in different functional contexts, also known as behavioural syndromes (Gosling, 2001; Sih et al., 2004).”
Boldness and behavioral syndromes in the bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus (2009, background): “The concept of behavioral syndromes has increasingly been applied to wild populations (e.g., Wilson and McLaughlin 2007) and has already been extensively developed by psychologists for humans and a few domesticated animal species (Gosling 2001; Sih et al. 2004).”
Personality predicts behavioral flexibility in a fluctuating, natural environment (2014, background): “IntroductIon The term “personality” describes behavioral differences among individuals that are consistent over time or contexts, for example, in the tendency to approach novel objects or predators, explore new environments, or interact with conspecifics (Gosling 2001).”
Personality, habitat use, and their consequences for survival in North American red squirrels Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (2008, background): “This tendency of an individual to behave in a predictable way is referred to as its personality ( Gosling 2001 ), temperament (Re ´ale et al. 2007), or behavioural syndrome (Sih et al. 2004).”
The self-domestication hypothesis: evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression (2012, background): “Behavioural syndromes can therefore incur evolutionary trade-offs that present special challenges for adaptive explanations (Price & Langen 1992; Gosling 2001; Sih et al. 2004a, b).”
Exposure to predation generates personality in threespined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). (2007, background): “There is increasing evidence for covariance among behavioural responses [reviewed in Koolhaas et al. (1999), Gosling (2001), Sih et al. (2004b), Dingemanse & Reale (2005) and Bell (2007)].”
Personalities in great tits, Parus major : stability and consistency (2005, background): “They are referred to as behavioural syndromes, predispositions, profiles, coping styles, strategies and axes (Sih et al. 2004; Groothuis & Carere 2005), comparable to human personalities (Gosling 2001).”