Here you can find an on-line bibliography of research on animal personality. If you are interested in learning more about the field or research that has been done on a specific species or trait, this might be a good place to begin looking.
For research specific to dogs, we maintain a separatae dog personality and temperament bibliography, which contains a subset of the articles in the more comprehensive animal personality bibliography.
- OTHER ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS
General and/or human personality
European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP)
International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)
Society of Personality and Social Psychology
Association of Research in Personality
Social and Personality Section of the Canadian Psychological Association
Spanish Society for the Research of Individual Differences
Personality & Biology
Behavior Genetics Association
Animal Behavior
Animal Behavior Society
Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
The Association for the Study of Animal Behavior
American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior
Listserves in Animal Personality
PERS-EE
- network for research in animal personality. Email Denis Reale at reale.denis@uqam.ca for more information or to join.
- LEGISLATION, ANIMAL WELFARE, & HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS
Whether a group is included here or not does not reflect API's opinions of that group and their goals relative to animal welfare.
U.S. Government & Legislation
Animal Welfare Information Center (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
National Animal Protection Groups
The Human Society of the United States (HSUS)
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA)
Human-Animal Relationships & Animal-Assisted Therapy
Delta Society - The Human - Animal Health Connection
Animal-Assisted Therapy & Activities
- ANIMAL PERSONALITY IN THE NEWS
Discovery Channel: Study: Dogs Have Personalities (December, 2003)
USA Today (Magazine): Animals have emotions and personalities (December, 2001)
- AUSTIN-AREA LINKS