A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis

LM Harrison, DWA Noble, MD Jennions - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The notion that men are more variable than women has become embedded into scientific
thinking. For mental traits like personality, greater male variability has been partly attributed …

Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour

M Briffa, LU Sneddon, AJ Wilson - Biology letters, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We review the evidence for a link between consistent among-individual variation in
behaviour (animal personality) and the ability to win contests over limited resources …

Evolution of sex-specific pace-of-life syndromes: causes and consequences

A Hämäläinen, E Immonen, M Tarka… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2018 - Springer
Males and females commonly differ in their life history optima and, consequently, in the
optimal expression of life history, behavioral and physiological traits involved in pace-of-life …

Are behavioural syndromes sex specific? Personality in a widespread lizard species

M Michelangeli, DG Chapple, BBM Wong - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2016 - Springer
Understanding how and why consistent behavioural traits (ie animal personality) vary
between individuals, and identifying the mechanisms that underlie such variation, is a key …

Environmental heterogeneity and population differences in blue tits personality traits

G Dubuc-Messier, D Réale, P Perret… - Behavioral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Environmental heterogeneity can result in spatial variation in selection pressures that can
produce local adaptations. The pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis predicts that habitat …

Population, sex and body size: determinants of behavioural variations and behavioural correlations among wild zebrafish Danio rerio

T Roy, A Bhat - Royal Society open science, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This study (1) investigated variation among populations and the effects of sex and body size
on boldness, activity and shoal-association tendency among wild zebrafish, and (2) tested …

Within‐individual correlations reveal link between a behavioral syndrome, condition, and cortisol in free‐ranging Belding's ground squirrels

AJ Dosmann, KC Brooks, JM Mateo - Ethology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Animals often exhibit consistent individual differences in behavior (ie, animal personality)
and correlations between behaviors (ie, behavioral syndromes), yet the causes of those …

Among-year variation in the repeatability, within-and between-individual, and phenotypic correlations of behaviors in a natural population

LZ Garamszegi, G Markó, E Szász, S Zsebők… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2015 - Springer
When mean behaviors correlate among individuals, they form behavioral syndromes. One
way to understand the evolution of such a group-level phenomenon is to compare …

Common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) personality.

SE Koski, HM Buchanan-Smith, H Ash… - Journal of …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Increasing evidence suggests that personality structure differs between species, but the
evolutionary reasons for this variation are not fully understood. We built on earlier research …

Males have more aggressive and less sociable personalities than females in semi-captive Asian elephants

MW Seltmann, S Helle, W Htut, M Lahdenperä - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Personality, ie consistent between-individual differences in behaviour, has been
documented in many species. Yet little is known about how males and females of long-lived …