Animal groups can show consistent behaviors or personalities just like solitary animals. We studied the collective behavior of Temnothorax nylanderi ant colonies, including consistency in behavior and correlations between different behavioral traits. We focused on four collective behaviors (aggression against intruders, nest relocation, removal of infected corpses and nest reconstruction) and a...

Animal personalities are an important factor that affects the dispersal of animals. In the context of aquatic species, dispersal modeling needs to consider that most freshwater ecosystems are highly fragmented by barriers reducing longitudinal connectivity. Previous research has incorporated such barriers into dispersal models under the neutral assumption that all migrating animals attempt to a...

Individual animals differ in the way they cope with challenges in their environment, comparable with variation in human personalities. The proximate basis of variation in personality traits has received considerable attention, and one general finding is that personality traits have a substantial genetic basis. This poses the question of how variation in personality is maintained in natural popu...

The research project uses words provided by first year South African university students describing their own personalities. These words are used to compare the personalities of computing and noncomputing students on the basis of the Five-Factor Model. The researchers used qualitative methods to code and group the words in terms of the Five-Factor Model, then used statistical methods to analyse...

objective: the aim of our study was to investigate the effect of coping strategies, personality trait and social support as the main social and psychological factors on infertility stress. materials and methods: this study was conducted on 201 infertile iranian women referred to the vali-e-asr reproductive health research center, and completed the following questionnaires: the fertility problem...

Habitat loss undeniably poses a substantial threat to biodiversity, but whether fragmentation per se drives the of species is still widely debated. While negative consequences from are often anticipated, many empirical studies report positive effects. However, intrinsic mechanisms governing species' persistence in fragmented landscapes not yet understood. In this study we investigated consisten...

The mystery behind the behavior of infamous personalities leaves many open questions, particularly when related to the practice of medicine. This paper takes a brief look at two Jewish physicians who played memorable roles in the life of Adolf Hitler.

In this paper, we propose that agents make decisions about norm compliance based on three different factors: self-interest, enforcement mechanisms and internalised emotions. Different agent personalities can be defined according to the importance given to each factor.