The author explores the viability of a comparative approach to personality research. A
review of the diverse animal-personality literature suggests that (a) most research uses trait …

Animal research has the potential to help address many fundamental questions about
personality. The experimental control and wide range of methods associated with animal …

Animal studies can enrich the field of human personality psychology by addressing
questions that are difficult or impossible to address with human studies alone. However, the …

There is now compelling evidence that personality traits can be assessed in nonhuman
animals (Gosling & Vazire, 2002; Vazire, Gosling, Dickey, & Schapiro, 2007), opening the …

Over the past decade, research on animal personality has flourished in numerous
disciplines ranging from Behavioral Ecology and Developmental Psychobiology to Genetics …

The evolutionary continuity between humans and other animals suggests that some
dimensions of personality may be common across a wide range of species. Unfortunately …

Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have
personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both …

The field of animal personalities claims to fill a gap in our understanding of animal behavior,
because it explicitly studies the adaptive significance of behavioral differences. This is a …

In this paper, we identify two obstacles that have hindered the integration of personality
research in anthrozoology. The first of these interrelated obstacles is the difficulty of …

The discovery that an individual may be constrained, and even behave suboptimally,
because of its personality type has fundamental implications for understanding individualto …