Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943, Werner, Christina S. and Gosselt, Karlijn (2013) From observations of individual behaviour to social representations of personality: Developmental pathways, attribution biases, and limitations of questionnaire methods. Journal of Research in Personality, 47 (5). pp. 647-667. ISSN 0092-6566 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.03.006)

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Abstract

Socio-cognitive abilities to recognise and to represent individual-specificity—even in some nonhuman species—are central to human life. Using a novel philosophy-of-science paradigm, we explored these abilities over 3 years in 6 waves by investigating individual-specific behaviours of 104 crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and the representations that 99 human observers—experts and novices—developed of them. By applying the non-lexical Behavioural Repertoire × Environmental Situations Approach, we generated 18 macaque-specific personality constructs. They were operationalised with behavioural measures to study the macaques and with two rating formats to study the observers’ representations. Analyses of reliability, cross-method coherence, taxonomic structures, associations with demographic factors, and 12–24-month stabilities highlighted essential differences between individual-specific behaviours and pertinent representations, explored developmental pathways of representations, and illuminated attribution biases and limitations of questionnaire methods.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	age differences, anthropomorphic bias, attribution bias, behavioural repertoire x environmental situations approach, macaque personality inventory for captive populations (MPIc), lexical approach, personality assessment, sex differences, gender differences, social representations, social status
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM)
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Last Modified:	01 Dec 2017 16:00
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/18191

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