Animal personalities and their implications for complex signaling

1. Do animal personalities emerge?

Urbanization and biological invasion shape animal personalities.

Novel selective pressures derived from human activities challenge the persistence of animal populations worldwide. Behavior is expected to be a major factor driving animals' responses to global change because it largely determines how animals interact with the environment. However, the role of individual variation in behavior to facilitate the persistence of animals in changing environments rem...

Psychopathic personality or personalities? Exploring potential variants of psychopathy and their implications for risk assessment

Although psychopathy typically has been construed as a relatively uniform construct, seminal theories and contemporary research suggest that it may be heterogeneous. In this article, the most promising literature is distilled to distinguish among potential variants of antisocial personality disorder (APD) that can be derived from, and informed by, modern conceptions of psychopathy. This analysi...

Animal Personalities: The Advantage of Diversity

Animals do not always perform to the best of their abilities when faced with difficult choices. New findings on foraging honeybees show that co-existing strategies, where some individuals place more emphasis on accuracy and others on speed, can be advantageous to the colony in a variable environment.

Children’s Avatar Preferences and their Personalities

Computer games are the most promising tools meeting the children’s needs stemmed from the new digital technologies. Thus, educational games are considered as effective ways providing these. However, to make an educational game more effective, one needs to know children’s preferences and factors affecting their choices. One of the factors is character features of the games because most children ...