How long does it take? Reliable personality assessment based on common behaviour in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F18%3A43897752" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/18:43897752 - isvavai.cz</a>
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2018.08.009" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.beproc.2018.08.009</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How long does it take? Reliable personality assessment based on common behaviour in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)
Original language description
Individual variation in behaviour has been shown to have important ecological and evolutionary consequences. Research on animal personality has therefore received considerable attention, yet some methodological issues remain unresolved. We tested whether assessing personality by coding common behaviours is as time-consuming method as some researchers believe it to be. Altogether, 300 hours of observation were collected on 20 captive cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). We first examined the repeatability of behavioural indices that represented the behavioural repertoire of cotton-top tamarins. We then compared the personality structures, based on different lengths of observation time, of these behavioural indices. The minimum observational time necessary to obtain a stable personality structure was 5 to 7 hours per individual. This stable structure included two components: Extraversion and Confidence, which were similar to those described in great apes, Old World monkeys, and other New World monkeys. Our findings suggest that, at least in the case of cotton-top tamarins, behavioural coding over relatively short periods of time can be used to assess personality and that longer observation periods may yield diminishing returns.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50103 - Cognitive sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Behavioural processes
ISSN
0376-6357
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
157
Issue of the periodical within the volume
DEC 2018
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
59-67
UT code for WoS article
000452570200009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85053013399