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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28258| Appears in Collections: | Psychology Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Personality links with lifespan in chimpanzees |
| Author(s): | Altschul, Drew M Hopkins, William Donald Herrelko, Elizabeth S Inoue-Murayama, Miho Matsuzawa, Tetsuro King, James E Ross, Stephen R Weiss, Alexander |
| Issue Date: | 9-Oct-2018 |
| Date Deposited: | 20-Nov-2018 |
| Citation: | Altschul DM, Hopkins WD, Herrelko ES, Inoue-Murayama M, Matsuzawa T, King JE, Ross SR & Weiss A (2018) Personality links with lifespan in chimpanzees. <i>eLife</i>, 7, Art. No.: e33781. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.33781 |
| Abstract: | Life history strategies for optimizing individual fitness fall on a spectrum between maximizing reproductive efforts and maintaining physical health over time. Strategies across this spectrum are viable and different suites of personality traits evolved to support these strategies. Using data from 538 captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) we tested whether any of the dimensions of chimpanzee personality – agreeableness, conscientiousness, dominance, extraversion, neuroticism, and openness – were associated with longevity, an attribute of slow life history strategies that is especially important in primates given their relatively long lives. We found that higher agreeableness was related to longevity in males, with weaker evidence suggesting that higher openness is related to longer life in females. Our results link the literature on human and nonhuman primate survival and suggest that, for males, evolution has favored the protective effects of low aggression and high quality social bonds. |
| DOI Link: | 10.7554/eLife.33781 |
| Rights: | Copyright Altschul et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
| Licence URL(s): | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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