Uher, Jana ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4943, Asendorpf, Jens B. and Call, Josep (2007) Personality in the behaviour of great apes: temporal stability, cross-situational consistency and coherence in response. Animal Behaviour, 75 (1). pp. 99-112. ISSN 0003-3472 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.018)

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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 x 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:	behaviour prediction, bonobo, bottom-up approach, chimpanzee, gorilla, individual differences, orang-utan, personality, traits
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 11:35
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/18189

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