Personality in the behaviour of great apes: temporal stability, cross-situational consistency and coherence in response

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-112

  Uher, Jana ^a,b   Asendorpf, Jens B ^a   Call, Josep ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

behaviour prediction; bonobo; bottom up approach; chimpanzee; gorilla; individual differences; orang utan; personality; traits

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; HOMINID; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS ABELII; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 37349038204     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.018     Document Type: Article

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