Tempérament

Rising prevalence of childhood psychopathology mandate investigation into the antecedents of symptom onset. Growing evidence shows prenatal maternal stress experienced in utero is a strong contributor to offspring neurodevelopmental deficits, including emotion dysregulation, a c…

The survival rates of preterm children have improved dramatically since the advent of new technologies and medical treatments. However, the long term behavioral implications of preterm birth are still being investigated. The current study sought to explore the relationships betw…

This thesis examines the relationship between individual differences in learning, personality, and social success in two groups of brown capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp.) housed at the “Living Links Centre for Human Evolution” at Edinburgh Zoo, UK. Being able to learn quickly and e…

Temperament has a long history of scholarship dating back as early as 350 BC when Hippocrates (1984) associated body fluids or temperament with behavior. Temperament is broadly described as stylistic and relatively stable traits that subsume intrinsic tendencies to act and react…

Research with several species has demonstrated that individual differences in behavior or temperament influence behavior, well-being and economically important characteristics such as meat quality. In particular, differences in fearfulness are related to feather pecking in layin…

Interest in developing tests that can be used internationally has flourished in the last few years. When developing tests for this purpose, it is important to establish cross-national equivalence for the psychological constructs of interest. Measurement of temperament is an impo…

Scope and Method of Study . Temperament is a well-researched construct that is often of interest when attempting to account for individual differences in data. Several models explaining temperament exist and studies of temperament that focus on early infancy in particular, like …