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Future Directions for Personality Research: Contributing New Insights to the Understanding of Animal Behavior
Tekijät: Vanessa Wilson, Anja Guenther, Øyvind Øverli, Martin W. Seltmann, Drew Altschul
Kustantaja: MDPI AG
Julkaisuvuosi: 2019
Journal: Animals
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
Lehden akronyymi: Animals (Basel)
Vuosikerta: 9
Numero: 5
Sivujen määrä: 17
ISSN: 2076-2615
eISSN: 2076-2615
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9050240
Verkko-osoite: http://doi.org/10.3390/ani9050240
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/40215618
As part of the European Conference on Behavioral Biology 2018, we organized a symposium entitled, “Animal personality: providing new insights into behavior?” The aims of this symposium were to address current research in the personality field, spanning both behavioral ecology and psychology, to highlight the future directions for this research, and to consider whether differential approaches to studying behavior contribute something new to the understanding of animal behavior. In this paper, we discuss the study of endocrinology and ontogeny in understanding how behavioral variation is generated and maintained, despite selection pressures assumed to reduce this variation. We consider the potential mechanisms that could link certain traits to fitness outcomes through longevity and cognition. We also address the role of individual differences in stress coping, mortality, and health risk, and how the study of these relationships could be applied to improve animal welfare. From the insights provided by these topics, we assert that studying individual differences through the lens of personality has provided new directions in behavioral research, and we encourage further research in these directions, across this interdisciplinary field.
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