[BERG] BERG seminar today, 16:00

Tue May 10 08:28:00 BST 2022

Dear BERGers,

A reminder that today, Dr Alexander Weiss (University of Edinburgh) is giving a seminar about his new paper entitled "Dominance in Human Personality Space and in Hominoid Phylogeny". Please see the abstract below. I am also attaching the accepted paper that Alex has kindly shared with us.

Link to the meeting and a list of the forthcoming seminars are below this email.

Hope to see you later!

Abstract:

Unlike nonhuman primates, individual differences between humans in dominance do not appear as broad personality factors. This may be attributable to differences between the questionnaires used to study human and nonhuman primate personality. Alternatively, this may reflect a difference in the organization of personality in humans and nonhuman primates. To determine which of these two possibilities was most likely 1147 participants were asked to rate their personality and/or that of somebody else on the Hominoid Personality Questionnaire (HPQ), which has been used to study nonhuman primate personality. A large subset of these participants (~80%) also completed self- and/or rater reports of one of three questionnaires used to measure human personality. Exploratory factor analyses of HPQ rater report data yielded five factors. These factors correlated mostly in expected ways with scales from questionnaires used to study human personality. Exploratory factor analyses of HPQ self-report data yielded no clear number of factors and no consistent evidence with respect to the presence of a dominance factor. Subsequent analyses compared HPQ scales that represented dominance factors in chimpanzees, bonobos, mountain gorillas, and orangutans, to scales derived from the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, including Fearless Dominance, which combined Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Extraversion facets, Emotional Stability (the inverse of Neuroticism), and Extraversion’s Assertiveness facet. Fearless Dominance was most like the great ape dominance factors. The absence of human dominance factors, therefore, appears to reflect present or past social conditions of our species.

Link to the meeting:

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Forthcoming seminars:

Date    Time    Speaker Affiliation     Seminar title
11/05/2022      16:00   Alexander Weiss University of Edinburgh Dominance in Human Personality Space and in Hominoid Phylogeny
18/05/2022      16:00   Eva Reindl      Durham University       TBC, investigating executive functions in children and chimps
25/05/2022      16:00   Shelley Culpepper       University of Stirling  Interspecific Olfactory Perception of Human Emotions: From the Horses Perspective

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