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Temperament: Temperament in psychology refers to innate, enduring traits that influence an individual's emotional and behavioral tendencies. It encompasses mood, activity level, rhythmicity, tendency for approach or withdrawal, and adaptability, often observed from early childhood. See also Personality traits, Personality.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Ethology on Temperament - Dictionary of Arguments

Corr I 292
Temperament/animals/ethology/Munafò: Defining an animal’s temperament, which should reflect an analogue of human personality traits, is not easy, and operational definitions typically require the animal to show a consistent pattern of response to a behavioural task or series of tasks. This obviously requires relatively strong assumptions regarding the extent to which this operational definition is an accurate analogue of the same construct in humans. (…)Tests (…) exist, which can be divided into measures that depend on unconditioned (ethological) or conditioned responses,
VsEthology: Conditioned responses have the advantage of offering much more experimental control. These measures are founded on principles of avoidance, autonomic activation and behavioural inhibition (i.e., the discontinuation of species-typical behaviours such as exploration).
>Animal studies/molecular genetics
, >Animal studies/behavioral genetics.


Marcus R. Munafò,“Behavioural genetics: from variance to DNA“, in: Corr, Ph. J. & Matthews, G. (eds.)2009. The Cambridge handbook of Personality Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Ethology
Corr I
Philip J. Corr
Gerald Matthews
The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology New York 2009

Corr II
Philip J. Corr (Ed.)
Personality and Individual Differences - Revisiting the classical studies Singapore, Washington DC, Melbourne 2018


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