Social interaction is thought to provide a selection pressure for human intelligence, yet little
is known about its neurobiological basis and evolution throughout the primate lineage …

Studies of primate personality have become increasingly common over the past three
decades. Recently, studies have begun to focus on the health, welfare and conservation …

Highlights•We experimentally assess prosocial motivation and mutually beneficial
cooperation.•Prosocial monkeys were better at cooperating in a coordinated string-pulling …

We studied personality, subjective well-being, and hair cortisol level, in common marmosets
Callithrix jacchus, a small, cooperatively breeding New World monkey, by examining their …

Personality in animals has been extensively researched in recent decades. Temporal
consistency of behaviors is almost always part of the personality definition and is usually …

The coping style and stress reactivity framework for individual differences in the stress
response has been of increasing utility within primatological research. Such differences are …

Animal personality can affect individual fitness and population growth. Personality traits of
either parent or parents' combination may facilitate reproduction and offspring survival …

Consistent inter-individual variation in cognition has been increasingly explored in recent
years in terms of its patterns, causes and consequences. One of its possible causes are …

Unlike nonhuman primates, individual differences between humans in dominance do not
appear as broad personality factors. This may be attributable to differences between the …

The proximate mechanisms underlying animal personalities, ie consistent inter-individual
differences in behaviour, are a matter of discussion. Brain lateralization, expressed as the …