Terminology use in animal personality research: a self-report questionnaire and a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Whether animal personality studies provide insights of broader evolutionary and ecological relevance to the field of behavioural ecology is frequently questioned. One of the sources of controversy is the vast, but often vague terminology present in the field. From a statistical perspective, animal personality is defined as among-individual variance in behaviour. However, numerous conceptual definitions of animal personality are available in the literature. Here, we performed (i) a self-report questionnaire and (ii) a systematic literature review to quantify how researchers interpreted conceptual and statistical definitions commonly used in animal personality research. We also compared whether data obtained from the questionnaire matched with data from the literature review. Among the 430 s

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Tojar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8808088 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature