Personality affects learning performance in difficult tasks in a sex-dependent way

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An empiricist guide to animal personality variation in ecology and evolution (2014, background): “There is lots of interesting variation in the degree of individual sociality across and within species with some excellent recent breakthroughs in understanding the neuronal and molecular basis for some of that variation (e.g., Goodson et al., 2009; Goodson and Kingsbury, 2011).”
Bolder stickleback fish make faster decisions, but they are not less accurate (2015, background): “…tits: van Oers et al. 2005) but not others (e.g., three-spined sticklebacks: Ward et al. 2004; Harcourt 2010), and although male great tits with faster BTs show more flexibility in learning compared with males with slower BTs, females show exactly the opposite relationship (Titulaer et al. 2012).”