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Social status and personality: stability in social state can promote consistency of behavioural responses.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jan 2014
Favati Anna, Leimar Olof, Radesäter Tommy, Løvlie Hanne
Abstract excerpt
Stability of 'state' has been suggested as an underlying factor explaining behavioural stability and animal personality (i.e. variation among, and consistency within individuals in behavioural responses), but the possibility that stable social relationships represent such states remains unexplored. Here, we investigated the influence of social status on the expression and consistency of behaviours by...
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