Developing a comprehensive and comparative questionnaire for measuring personality in chimpanzees using a simultaneous top-down/bottom-up design

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1042-1053

  Freeman, Hani D ^a,b,c   Brosnan, Sarah F ^c,d   Hopper, Lydia M ^a,c,d   Lambeth, Susan P ^d   Schapiro, Steven J ^d,e   Gosling, Samuel D ^b  

^a Lincoln Park Zoo   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agreeableness; Chimpanzees; Dominance; Extraversion; Openness; Personality

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; DATA SET; DOMINANCE; EVOLUTION; INCLUSION; PRIMATE; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

ANIMALIA; PAN; PRIMATES;

AGREEABLENESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEES; DOMINANCE; EXTRAVERSION; HUMAN; OPENNESS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERSONALITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; ZOO ANIMAL;

AGREEABLENESS; CHIMPANZEES; DOMINANCE; EXTRAVERSION; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERSONALITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84882667390     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22168     Document Type: Article

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