Recent studies in the field of behavioural ecology have revealed intriguing variation in
behaviour within single populations. Increasing evidence suggests that individual animals …

Individuals often differ in what they do. This has been recognised since antiquity.
Nevertheless, the ecological and evolutionary significance of such variation is attracting …

Background Theory and research suggest that sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), found
in roughly 20% of humans and over 100 other species, is a trait associated with greater …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

This article reviews the literature on sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) in light of growing
evidence from evolutionary biology that many personality differences in nonhuman species …

Recent studies of animal personality have focused on its proximate causation and its
ecological and evolutionary significance, but have mostly ignored questions about its …

Behavioural traits are characterized by their labile expression: behavioural responses can,
in principle, be up-and down-regulated in response to moment-to-moment changes in …

460 BUSS evolved solutions to the adaptive problems our species has faced over millions of
years. Because personality psychology is dedicated to studying human nature in all of its …

In this paper we review recent models that provide adaptive explanations for animal
personalities: individual differences in behaviour (or suites of correlated behaviours) that are …

This introduction to the themed issue on Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the
study of personality provides an overview of conceptual, theoretical and methodological …