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1. Full Text Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major)
by Aplin, L. M and Farine, D. R and Morand‐Ferron, J and Cole, E. F and Cockburn, A and Sheldon, B. C and Sih, Andrew
Ecology Letters, ISSN 1461-023X, 11/2013, Volume 16, Issue 11, pp. 1365 - 1372
Social environments have an important effect on a range of ecological processes, and form a crucial component of selection. However, little is known of the... 
Paridae | Behavioural syndrome | personality | social behaviour | social network theory | Personality | Social behaviour | Social network theory | ANIMALS | EXPLORATORY-BEHAVIOR | PATTERNS | TRAIT | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | CONTEXT | EVOLUTION | FITNESS CONSEQUENCES | ECOLOGY | SELECTION | Behavior, Animal | Models, Theoretical | Animals, Wild | Animals | Passeriformes - physiology | Time Factors | Social Behavior | Female | Male | Social aspects | Animal behavior | Social networks | Birds
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2. Full Text Sexual selection and animal personality
by Schuett, Wiebke and Tregenza, Tom and Dall, Sasha R. X
Biological Reviews, ISSN 1464-7931, 05/2010, Volume 85, Issue 2, pp. 217 - 246
Consistent individual behavioural tendencies, termed “personalities”, have been identified in a wide range of animals. Functional explanations for personality... 
repeatability | sexual selection | behavioural synchronization | competition | consistency | mate choice | sex differences | behavioural syndrome | individual differences | Competition | Repeatability | Behavioural syndrome | Sexual selection | Behavioural synchronization | Consistency | Individual differences | Mate choice | Sex differences | QUAIL COTURNIX-JAPONICA | TIT PARUS-MAJOR | PARENTAL CARE | ADAPTIVE INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES | WILD BIRD POPULATION | MIDAS CICHLID FISH | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | BEHAVIORAL SYNDROMES | BIOLOGY | FEMALE MATING PREFERENCE | Biological Evolution | Personality - genetics | Animals | Sex Characteristics | Humans | Selection, Genetic | Competition (Biology) | Mate selection | Research | Animal behavior | Analysis | Sexual selection in animals
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3. Full Text Corticosterone responses differ between lines of great tits ( Parus major ) selected for divergent personalities
by Baugh, Alexander T and Schaper, Sonja V and Hau, Michaela and Cockrem, John F and de Goede, Piet and Oers, Kees van
General and Comparative Endocrinology, ISSN 0016-6480, 2012, Volume 175, Issue 3, pp. 488 - 494
Highlights ► We tested for a link between personality and corticosterone responses in great tits. ► Artificial selection on a composite personality score... 
Endocrinology & Metabolism | Great tit | Corticosterone | Artificial selection | Exploration | Personality | Parus major | Stress | international | HIGH ADRENOCORTICAL-RESPONSE | BASE-LINE | REALIZED HERITABILITY | INDIVIDUAL VARIATION | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | PLASMA TESTOSTERONE | FITNESS CONSEQUENCES | ANIMAL PERSONALITY | ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM | RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR | JAPANESE-QUAIL | Passeriformes - classification | Stress, Physiological - physiology | Exploratory Behavior - physiology | Phenotype | Animals | Passeriformes - physiology | Behavior, Animal - physiology | Female | Male | Corticosterone - blood | Animal behavior | Steroids
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4. Full Text Life-history trade-offs favour the evolution of animal personalities
by Wolf, M and Van Doorn, G.S and Leimar, O and Weissing, F.J and Stockholms universitet and Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten and Zoologiska institutionen
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 05/2007, Volume 447, Issue 7144, pp. 581 - 584
In recent years evidence has been accumulating that personalities are not only found in humans(1) but also in a wide range of other animal species(2-8).... 
BOLDNESS | INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES | DISRUPTIVE SELECTION | GASTEROSTEUS-ACULEATUS | BEHAVIORAL-DIFFERENCES | CONSEQUENCES | POPULATIONS | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | STICKLEBACKS | HERITABILITY | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | Aggression - physiology | Biological Evolution | Predatory Behavior - physiology | Exploratory Behavior - physiology | Animals | Models, Biological | Risk-Taking | Selection, Genetic | Reproduction - physiology | Behavior, Animal - physiology | Aggression - psychology | Personality - physiology | Animal reproduction | Risk | Evolutionary biology | Animal behavior | Theory | Personality traits | Biological Sciences | Aggression | Exploratory behavior | Terrestisk, limnisk och marin ekologi | Ecology | Personality | Biology | Ethology and behavioural ecology | Risk-taking | Terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecology | Etologi och beteendeekologi | Naturvetenskap | Biologiska vetenskaper | Evolution | Disruptive selection | Biologi | Natural Sciences | Ekologi | Boldness
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5. Full Text Personality in captivity reflects personality in the wild
by Herborn, Katherine A and Macleod, Ross and Miles, Will T.S and Schofield, Anneka N.B and Alexander, Lucille and Arnold, Kathryn E
Animal Behaviour, ISSN 0003-3472, 2010, Volume 79, Issue 4, pp. 835 - 843
To investigate the ecological significance of personality, researchers generally measure behavioural traits in captivity. Whether behaviour in captivity is... 
risk responsiveness | blue tit | exploration | neophobia | animal personality | Cyanistes caeruleus | behavioural syndrome | TIT PARUS-MAJOR | MALE GREAT TITS | 3-SPINED STICKLEBACK | GASTEROSTEUS-ACULEATUS | REALIZED HERITABILITY | EXPLORATORY-BEHAVIOR | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES | ZOOLOGY | BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR | PUMPKINSEED SUNFISH
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6. Full Text An explanatory framework for adaptive personality differences
by Max Wolf and Franz J. Weissing
Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, ISSN 0962-8436, 12/2010, Volume 365, Issue 1560, pp. 3959 - 3968
We develop a conceptual framework for the understanding of animal personalities in terms of adaptive evolution. We focus on two basic questions. First, why do... 
Animals | Wolves | Genetic variation | Ecological competition | Correlations | Genetic polymorphism | Phenotypic plasticity | Evolution | Personality | Positive feedback | HISTORY TRADE-OFFS | GENETIC-POLYMORPHISM | LIFE-HISTORIES | frequency-dependent selection | animal personality | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | SOCIAL-DOMINANCE | non-equilibrium dynamics | bet hedging | INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES | PHENOTYPIC POLYMORPHISM | BEHAVIORAL SYNDROMES | HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS | state-dependent behaviour | behavioural syndromes | ecology | behaviour | evolution | Articles | BIOLOGY | Behavioural syndromes | Bet hedging | Frequency-dependent selection | Animal personality | State-dependent behaviour | Non-equilibrium dynamics | Behavior, Animal | Biological Evolution | Behavioral Research | Selection, Genetic | Models, Psychological | Environment | Personality - genetics | Feedback, Psychological | Adaptation, Psychological | 1001
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7. Full Text Pairs of zebra finches with similar ‘personalities’ make better parents
by Schuett, Wiebke and Dall, Sasha R.X and Royle, Nick J
Animal Behaviour, ISSN 0003-3472, 2011, Volume 81, Issue 3, pp. 609 - 618
Although behavioural plasticity should be an advantage in a varying world, there is increasing evidence for widespread stable individual differences in the... 
parental care | exploration | zebra finch | cross-fostering | Taeniopygia guttata | negotiation | sexual selection | temperament | aggression | behavioural syndrome | Parental care | Negotiation | Behavioural syndrome | Cross-fostering | Sexual selection | Aggression | Exploration | Zebra finch | Temperament | TAENIOPYGIA-GUTTATA | SEXUAL CONFLICT | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | CARE | EXTRAPAIR PATERNITY | MATE CHOICE | INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES | PARUS-MAJOR | ZOOLOGY | ANIMAL PERSONALITY | CONSEQUENCES | BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | Evolutionary biology | Animal behavior
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8. Full Text Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity
by Dingemanse, Niels J and Kazem, Anahita J.N and Réale, Denis and Wright, Jonathan
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, ISSN 0169-5347, 2010, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 81 - 89
Recent studies in the field of behavioural ecology have revealed intriguing variation in behaviour within single populations. Increasing evidence suggests that... 
EVOLUTION | WILD BIRD POPULATION | PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY | GREAT TITS | NATURAL-SELECTION | LIFE-HISTORY | EXPLORATORY-BEHAVIOR | AMERICAN RED SQUIRRELS | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | QUANTITATIVE GENETICS | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | GENETICS & HEREDITY | ECOLOGY | Behavior, Animal | Animals | Models, Biological | Ecosystem | Invertebrates - physiology | Stress, Physiological | Vertebrates - physiology | Personality | Quantitative genetics | Animal behavior | Ecology
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9. Full Text Natural selection and animal personality
by Dingemanse, Niels J and Réale, Denis
Behaviour, ISSN 0005-7959, 2005, Volume 142, Issue 9-10, pp. 1159 - 1184
Recent progress has been made on the study of personality in animals, both from a mechanistic and a functional perspective. While we start knowing more about... 
Quantitative genetics | Ewes | Animals | Reviews | Ecological competition | Personality traits | Evolution | Evolutionary genetics | Personality | Human aggression | Phenotypic traits | Behavioural syndromes | Reproductive success | Sexual selection | Genetic constraints | Correlational selection | correlational selection | TITS PARUS-MAJOR | MALE GREAT TITS | GASTEROSTEUS-ACULEATUS | sexual selection | CSF 5-HIAA CONCENTRATION | EXPLORATORY-BEHAVIOR | genetic constraints | CONSISTENT INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | ZOOLOGY | personality | TROUT SALMO-TRUTTA | BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR | behavioural syndromes | reproductive success
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10. Full Text Experimental evidence for adaptive personalities in a wild passerine bird
by Marion Nicolaus and Joost M. Tinbergen and Karen M. Bouwman and Stephanie P. M. Michler and Richard Ubels and Christiaan Both and Bart Kempenaers and Niels J. Dingemanse
Proceedings: Biological Sciences, ISSN 0962-8452, 12/2012, Volume 279, Issue 1749, pp. 4885 - 4892
Individuals of the same species differ consistently in risky actions. Such 'animal personality' variation is intriguing because behavioural flexibility is... 
Quantitative genetics | Sex ratio | Animals | Ecological genetics | Wolves | Genetic variation | Ecological competition | Materials | Evolution | Personality | ANIMAL PERSONALITIES | TIT PARUS-MAJOR | EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY | risk-taking behaviour | REALIZED HERITABILITY | animal personality | life-history trade-offs | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | reproductive value | INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES | GREAT TITS | BEHAVIORAL SYNDROMES | asset protection | BROOD SIZE | Parus major | REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS | ecology | behaviour | evolution | BIOLOGY | Research articles | Life-history trade-offs | Asset protection | Risk-taking behaviour | Animal personality | Reproductive value | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | ECOLOGY | Exploratory Behavior | Netherlands | Phenotype | Songbirds - genetics | Songbirds - physiology | Environment | Female | Male | Seasons | 1001
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