Recently, there has been an increased interest in research on
personality, temperament, and behavioral syndromes (henceforth to
be referred to as personality) in nonhuman primates and other
animals. This follows, in part, from a general interest in the
subject matter and the realization that individual differences,
once consigned to error terms in statistical analyses, are
potentially important predictors, moderators, and mediators of a
wide variety of outcomes ranging from the results of experiments to
health to enrichment programs. Unfortunately, while there is a
burgeoning interest in the subject matter, findings have been
reported in a diverse number of journals and most of the
methodological and statistical approaches were developed in
research on human personality.
The proposed volume seeks to gather submissions from a variety
of specialists in research on individual differences in primate
temperament, personality, or behavioral syndromes. We anticipate
that chapters will cover several areas. The first part of this
edited volume will focus on methodological considerations including
the advantages and disadvantages of different means of assessing
these constructs in primates and introduce some statistical
approaches that have typically been the domain of human personality
research. Another part of this edited volume will focus on present
findings including the physiological and genetic bases of
personality dimensions in primates; the relationship between
personality and age; how personality may moderate or impact various
outcomes including behavior, health, and well-being in captive and
non-captive environments. For the third part of the volume we hope
to obtain summaries of the existing work of the authors on the
evolutionary important of personality dimensions and guideposts for
future directions in this new and exciting area of research."
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