Personality and Temperament in Nonhuman Primates
The result of a symposium hosted by the American Society of Primatologists, this volume attests to the huge strides made in recent decades by researchers studying primates and their behavior. Research into the notion of ‘personality’ in nonhuman primates
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Alexander Weiss James E. King Lindsay Murray ●
Editors
Personality and Temperament in Nonhuman Primates
Editors Alexander Weiss Department of Psychology School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences The University of Edinburgh Scotland, Edinburgh, UK [email protected]
James E. King Department of Psychology University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA [email protected]
Lindsay Murray Department of Psychology University of Chester Chester, UK [email protected]
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ISBN 978-1-4614-0175-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-0176-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0176-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011933598 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To
my wife Emily; siblings Katherine, Elizabeth, and Chris; and to my parents David and Gisela Alexander Weiss To Penny James E. King Thanks and love to Raymond and my favourite little primates, Ethan, Alyssa and Aaron, for all your support and inspiration during this journey Lindsay Murray
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Preface
This volume evolved from a symposium held at the American Society of Primatologists conference in Portland, Oregon, USA in August 2005. The symposium was organized by Lindsay Murray, Alex Weiss, and Sam Gosling with Jim King as the discussant. The symposium’s purpose was to present an overview of the current status of research on personality in nonhuman primates. Sometime after the symposium Russ Tuttle approached two of the present editors (Alex Weiss and Jim King) about the idea of putting together this edited volume. We eagerly agreed and invited Lindsay Murray to participate in the project. Primate personality research has progressed much since the 1930s and 1940s when primatologists began to notice large individual differences in the behavioral and emotional dispositions of monkeys and apes. Interest in the area waned and then briefly resurfaced when Jane Goodall, during her initial researches at Gombe National Park, described striking personality differences among the chimpanzees. These sometimes dramatic manifestations
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