Personality and temperament in nonhuman primates
By: Alexander Weiss, James E. King, Lindsay Murray, editors
Contributors: American Society of Primatologists. Meeting
Series: Developments in primatology : progress and prospects; Developments in primatology
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781461401759; 9781461401766
Subjects: Animal Behavior; Cognition in animals; Social behavior in animals; Psychology; Biological Evolution; Behavior; Behavior evolution; Congresses; Sociobiology; Primates; Methods
Notes: Evolved from a symposium held at the American Society of Primatologists conference in Portland, Ore. in Aug. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Individual characteristics : weaving psychological and ethological approaches / Joan Stevenson-Hinde and Camilla A. Hinde; title: Comparison of methods for assessing personality in non-human primates / Hanni Freeman, Samuel D. Gosling, and Steven J. Shapiro; title: Personality in nonhuman primates : what can we learn from personality psychology? / Jana Uher; title: Personality from the perspective of a primatologist / James E. King and Alexander Weiss; title: Objective behavioral tests of temperament in nonhuman primates / Lynn A. Fairbanks and Matthew J. Jorgensen; title: Predicting primate behavior from personality ratings / Lindsay Murray; title: Primate personality and behavioral endocrimology / Stephanie F. Anestis; title: Chimpanzee faces under the magnifying glass : emerging methods reveal cross-species similarities and individuality / Kim A. Bard, Augusta D. Gaspar, and Sarah-Jane Vick; title: Nonhuman primate personality and immunity : mechanisms of health and disease / John P. Capitanio; title: Impulsivity and aggression as personality traits in nonhuman primates / J. Dee Higley, Stephan J. Suomi, and Andrew C. Chaffin; title: Reactivity and behavioral inhibition as personality traits in nonhuman primates / Stephan J. Suomi, Andrew C. Chaffin, and J. Dee Higley; title: Behavioral syndromes : a behavioral ecologist's view on the evolutionary and ecological implications of animal personality / Andrew Sih.