Unfolding personalities: The importance of studying ontogeny

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 641-655

  Groothuis, Ton G G ^b   Trillmich, Fritz ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal personalities; Behavioral syndromes; Coping styles; Development; Epigenesis; Evolution; Self organization; Temperament

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TEMPERAMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERAMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80051884275     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20574     Document Type: Article

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