Dissertation Research: Personality Traits of Captive Lion Tailed Macaques

论文研究：圈养狮尾猕猴的性格特征

• 批准号: 9816165
• 负责人: Robert Sussman
• 金额: $ 0.87万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-01 至 2000-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9816165&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Personality; Traits; Captive; Dissertation; Research; Personality; Traits; Captive

Personality traits of captive lion-tailed macaques will be investigated in this study. Because each social group is a unique constellation of individuals, understanding differences in personality is important for a better understanding of primate social behavior, groups, and species. In laboratory tests, knowing how personality contributes to the different responses of animals under the same conditions will enable researchers to interpret results more clearly. Human personality research will also benefit, because prototypes of human traits can be studied through nonhuman primate models when human testing would be difficult or unethical, such as when studying the biologic basis of personality. Social and environmental conditions of nonhuman primates can also be manipulated to explore their influence on personality as well. In this study, personality traits will be assessed by observing the behavior of 52 captive macaques in 8 groups, kept in different social groupings and/or types of housing. A principal components analysis, a statistical technique used in human personality research, will group behaviors that occur together to determine major factors of personality. Two personality profiles will be developed for each animal: one based on the frequency of behaviors and a second using personality factors from the principal components analysis. Individual profiles will be averaged to form a female and a male species profile for both behavioral frequency and for personality factors. In addition, the effect of sex, dominance rank, ratio of males to females in the group, and spatial density of housing (square feet/animal) on personality will be explored. The method used in this research can integrate the results of many different investigators, because it is divided into specific traits, each defined by commonly studied primate behaviors. Because it facilitates research comparing primate groups and species, it should help untangle the complex mix of genetic, social, and environmental influences on both human and nonhuman primate personality.

这项研究将研究圈养狮子尾猕猴的人格特征。 因为每个社会群体都是个人的独特星座，所以了解人格差异对于更好地理解灵长类动物的社会行为，群体和物种很重要。 在实验室测试中，了解人格如何在相同条件下的动物反应贡献将使研究人员能够更清楚地解释结果。 人格研究也将受益，因为当人类测试很困难或不道德时，例如研究人格的生物学基础时，可以通过非人类灵长类动物模型研究人类特征的原型。 也可以操纵非人类灵长类动物的社会和环境条件，以探索其对个性的影响。 在这项研究中，将通过观察52个俘虏猕猴的行为来评估人格特征，并保存在不同的社会群体和/或住房类型中。 主要成分分析是人格研究中使用的一种统计技术，它将分组在一起，以确定人格的主要因素。 每种动物将开发两个人格曲线：一个基于行为频率，使用主要成分分析中的人格因素。 平均将平均形成雌性和男性物种，以表现出行为频率和人格因素。 此外，将探索性别，主导地位，男性与女性的比例以及住房的空间密度（平方英尺/动物）对人格的空间密度。 这项研究中使用的方法可以整合许多不同研究者的结果，因为它被分为特定的特征，每种特征由常见的灵长类动物行为定义。 由于它促进了比较灵长类动物群体和物种的研究，因此应该有助于解开对人类和非人类灵长类动物人格的遗传，社会和环境影响的复杂组合。