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17 - Personality in Nonhuman Animals

from Part IV - Biological Perspectives: Evolution, Genetics and Neuroscience of Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Alison M. Bell  and
Miles K. Bensky
Edited by
Philip J. Corr  and
Gerald Matthews
Philip J. Corr
Affiliation:
City, University London
Gerald Matthews
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
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Summary

Organisms have been observing the behavior of other organisms for as long as there have been organisms. As humans, we are especially good at paying attention to cues from other humans and are acutely aware that people differ from each other. Astute observers of animal behavior have long noticed that individuals behave differently from one another, and a quick scan of popular YouTube channels devoted to individual pet cats strongly suggests that interest in the uniqueness of individual animals remains strong. What might be more surprising is that individual variation in nonhuman animals is no longer considered a mere curiosity in scientific circles: Over the past fifteen and more years individual variation in nonhuman animals (so called “animal personality”) has attracted the attention of animal behaviorists, who are now pursuing it as a serious research topic.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 235 - 246
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Print publication year: 2020

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