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Fish nature: Sometimes shy, sometimes bold

Tests of pumpkinseed sunfish show that shyness and boldness are personality traits not necessarily expressed in all situations.

 

References:

Coleman, K., and D.S. Wilson. 1998. Shyness and boldness in pumpkinseed sunfish: Individual differences are context-specific. Animal Behaviour 56(October):927.

 

Further Readings:

Bower, B. 1995. Return of the group. Science News 148(Nov. 18):328.

Kagan, J. 1998. Three Seductive Ideas. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Sober, E., and D.S. Wilson. 1998. Unto Others. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University press.

Wilson, D.S. 1998. Adaptive individual differences within single populations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 353(February):199.

Sources:

Kristine Coleman
Oregon Regional Primate Research Center
505 Northwest 185th Avenue
Beaverton, OR 97006

Jerome Kagan
Harvard University
Department of Psychology
William James Hall
Office 1518
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Jennifer Mather
University of Lethbridge
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4
Canada

David Sloan Wilson
Binghampton University
Department of Biological Sciences
Binghampton, NY 13902-6000

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 17, October 24, 1998, p. 263.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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