The discovery that an individual may be constrained, and even behave sub‐optimally,
because of its personality type has fundamental implications for understanding individual‐to …

The intuition that we have privileged and unrestricted access to ourselves–that we inevitably
know who we are, how we feel, what we do, and what we think–is very compelling. Here, we …

This article tests a new model for predicting which aspects of personality are best judged by
the self and which are best judged by others. Previous research suggests an asymmetry in …

Biological individuality is a notoriously thorny topic for biologists and philosophers of
biology. In this paper we argue that biological individuality presents multiple, interconnected …

Many people assume that they know themselves better than anyone else knows them.
Recent research on inaccuracies in self-perception, however, suggests that self-knowledge …

Scientific reports of personality in nonhuman primates are now appearing with increasing
frequency across a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, anthropology …

Personality, or consistent individual differences in behavior, is well established in studies of
dogs. Such consistency implies predictability of behavior, but some recent research …

Boldness in animal personality studies is measured using a range of different behavioural
assays, including responses to novel objects, novel environments and threatening stimuli …

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

In evolutionary and behavioural ecology, increasing attention is being paid to the fact that
functionally distinct behaviours are often not independent from each other. Such …