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This stimulating and comprehensive collection brings together multiple perspectives on the topic of personality in nonhuman animals – linking historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, methods, and cutting-edge discoveries. Experts from various fields describe their findings on species ranging from dogs, cats, chimpanzees, and dolphins to sharks, snakes, and other reptiles. Chapters not only discuss the evolution of personality, but also describe potential applications within the areas of animal-human interactions, animal ethics and welfare, conservation science, and other areas. A key focus is the role of genetics and the environment in determining animal behaviour and personality, including related traits, such as creativity and boredom. These chapters present the study of personality in nonhumans as a means by which we can better understand medical and psychological issues specific to our own species as well.
Chapters include:
- Exploring factor space (and other adventures) with the Hominoid Personality Questionnaire
- The quantitative and molecular genetics of individual differences in animal personality
- Personality, temperament and individuality in reptile behaviour
- What do we want to know about personality in marine mammals?
- Individual differences in nonhuman animals: examining boredom, curiosity, and creativity
- The interplay between animal personality and foraging ecology
Taking significant steps in advancing the study of animal personality, Personality in Nonhuman Animals will engage personality psychologists, comparative psychologists, and behaviour ecologists as well as conservationists, zookeepers, livestock managers, and all those interested in the brain and behaviour of animals.
Table of Contents
Tribute to Stan Kuczaj Lauren Highfill
Editor's Note Jennifer Vonk
Part I: Introduction
1. A History of Animal Personality William Whitham & David A. Washburn
Part II. Models and Perspectives in the Study of Personality
2. Exploring Factor Space (and other Adventures) with the Hominoid Personality Questionnaire Alexander Weiss
3. The Interpersonal Circumplex: A Complementary Approach for Understanding Animal Personality Virgil Zeigler-Hill & Lauren Highfill
4. The quantitative and molecular genetics of individual differences in animal personality Laine & van Oers
5. Personality from the perspective of behavioral ecology Brommer & Class III. Personality in Various Taxonomic Groups
6. Feeling Fishy: Trait Differences in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Khan & Echevarria
7. Personality in elasmobranchs with special focus on sharks: early evidence, challenges and the future. Finger, Dhellemmes & Guttridge
8. Personality, Temperament and Individuality in Reptile Behavior Burghardt et al
9. Personality in Swine Horback
10. Personality in Dogs Fratkin
11. Felid Personality and Its Implications Gartner
12. What do we want to know about personality in marine mammals? Frick, de Vere & Kuczaj
Part IV. Applications of the Study of Nonhuman Personality
13. Individual Differences in Nonhuman Animals: Examining Boredom, Curiosity, and Creativity Lilley, Yeater & Kuczaj
14. Phenotype Management: An Inclusive Framework for Supporting Individuals' Contributions to Conservation Populations Watters, Bremner-Harrison & Powell
15. You are what you eat: the interplay between animal personality and foraging ecology Troxell-Smith & Mella
16. Applications of Research in Nonhuman Animal Personality Loyer & Ha
Jennifer Vonk is a comparative cognitive psychologist, who is now full professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, U.S. She obtained her PhD from York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Louisiana before accepting a position at the University of Southern Mississippi where she was a member of the Psychology department until 2011. She is known for studying a variety of cognitive processes in bears, non-human primates, and many other less studied species. She is the co-editor in Chief of Animal Behavior and Cognition, founded by Stanley Kuczaj, and serves as an associate editor on three additional journals. She directs the Laboratory of Cognitive Origins (LoCO) at Oakland University.
Alexander Weiss is a comparative and differential psychologist, and a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, U.K. He obtained his PhD from the University of Arizona, in Tucson, Arizona, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Personality and Cognition at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, Maryland before joining the Department of Psychology in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh in 2005. He is known primarily for his research on personality and subjective well-being in nonhuman primates and other animals, and for his work on personality, aging, and health in humans and other primates. He is an associate editor at Animal Behaviour.
Stanley A. Kuczaj is well known for his pioneering research with marine mammals and his early studies of human language development. He graduated from the University of Minnesota's Child Psychology program in 1976 and went on to be chair of Psychology at Southern Methodist University, and later at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he served as chair for over ten years. Stan was the recipient of numerous awards and was the President of the Comparative Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience Society/Division 6 of the American Psychological Association at the time of his passing in April, 2016. He was the director of the internationally renowned Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition laboratory where he had supervised dozens of MS and PhD theses and dissertations. At the time of his passing he had published over 125 peer-reviewed publications.
