Personality structure and social style in macaques

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 338-353

  Adams, Mark James ^a   Majolo, Bonaventura ^b   Ostner, Julia ^c   Schülke, Oliver ^c   De Marco, Arianna ^d   Thierry, Bernard ^e   Engelhardt, Antje ^f   Widdig, Anja ^g   Gerald, Melissa S ^h   Weiss, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d Fondazione Ethoikos   (Italy)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Comparative; Dominance; Fuzzy set; Old world monkey; Social style

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84937728394     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000041     Document Type: Article

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