Personality Dimensions in Spotted Hyenas (Crocuta crocuta)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-118

  Gosling, Samuel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TEMPERAMENT;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 0032084342     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.112.2.107     Document Type: Article

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