Personality Consistency in Dogs: A Meta-Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fratkin, Jamie L ^a   Sinn, David L ^a,b   Patall, Erika A ^a   Gosling, Samuel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; AGGRESSION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEAR; MEASUREMENT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORKING ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOGS; PERSONALITY;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84872826779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054907     Document Type: Article

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