Linking personality and cognition: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: In the past decade, several conceptual papers have linked variation in animal personality to variation in cognition, and recent years have seen a flood of empirical studies testing this link. However, these results have not been synthesized in a quantitative way. Here, we systematically search the literature and conduct a phylogenetically controlled meta-analysis of empirical papers that have tested the relationship between animal personality (exploration, boldness, activity, aggression and sociability) and cognition (initial learning/reversal speed, number of correct choices/errors after standard training). We find evidence for a small but significant relationship between variation in personality and variation in learning across species in the absolute scale; however, the direction of thi

SUBMITTER: Dougherty LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6107561 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature