For students interested in doing a Ph.D. or post-doc in a field related to animal personality, we list a number of researchers doing work in this area. These researchers may or may not be taking graduate students. Before you get in touch with them, it is crucial that you read up on their work to make sure your interests and theirs really do match.

Note to researchers: If you would like to be listed [or removed!] from this section please let us know (email: amanda@animalpersonality.org).


Researchers:

John Capitanio, Department of Psychology, UC Davis
website: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/Capitanio/

Sasha Dell, Centre for Ecology & Conservation, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
website: www.uec.ac.uk/biology/research/staff-research-interests/sasha-dall.shtml

Piet Drent, Netherlands Institute for Ecology
website: http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/PEOPLE/index.htm

Sam Gosling, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
website: www.samgosling.com

Dasha Grajfoner, Edinburgh University

Lynette Hart, Department of Population Health and Reproduction, UC Davis
website: http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/lahart/

James King, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona
website: http://psychology.arizona.edu/people/each_detail.php?option=1&detail=20&mtitle=Core%20Faculty

Katja Ojala, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Andy Sih, Department of Behavioral Ecology, UC Davis
website: http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/research/sihlab/ (Copy and paste if link does not work)

David Sinn, University of Tasmania
website: http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/zoo/pagedetails.asp?lpersoId=3704

Alex Weiss, Department of Psychology, Edinburgh University
website: http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/people/awei/index_html (Copy and paste if link does not work)

Dan Blumstein, Department of Psychology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA

For other researchers doing work of potential interest, please see the brief listing of researchers linked directly below.

Here you can find a brief listing of researchers whose work contributes to our understanding of non-human animal personality. Note that not all of these researchers would describe their research as "animal personalty".

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.

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