The basic question that was addressed in Samuel D. Gosling and Oliver P. John’s “Personality Dimensions in Non-Human Animals: A Cross-Species Review” is the thought that whether or not non human animals had any sort of personality. Gosling and John discussed various personality types such as: agreeableness, extraversion, openness, dominance, neuroticism, and consciousness. Another question that was discussed was if they had personalities, and their activity level compared to human beings. The researchers doing the study predicted that there would be some similarities between human and animal personalities. They came up with personality codes to refer to personality types. They used the letters N for neuroticism, A for agreeableness, altruism, affection, E for extraversion, energy, enthusiasm, O for openness, originality, open-mindedness, and C for conscientiousness, control, constraint. The author
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Of the 12 animals studied, 10 had factors related to the Extraversion portion of the chart. Which means that 10 that were studied showed an extravert personality. The two animals that did not test high on extraversion were octopi and guppies. They compared this to humans choosing to stay home on a Saturday night, instead of going out to a party. 7 out of the 12 animal tested high in the openness category. John (2011) stated that “The O-factor in these animals studies resemble the early forms of O observed in human toddlers; lacking advanced language skills, their curiosity is manifested in an intense in novel objects and events, and their imagination is shown in perspective taking and role shifts characteristic of pretend play” (p.70). Another shocking statistic that was found in a study is that the conscientiousness trait was only found in chimpanzees. This is interesting because people often like to point out that primates, such as chimpanzees, have human like tendencies. Such as appearance , or the way they move and
Of the 12 animals studied, 10 had factors related to the Extraversion portion of the chart. Which means that 10 that were studied showed an extravert personality. The two animals that did not test high on extraversion were octopi and guppies. They compared this to humans choosing to stay home on a Saturday night, instead of going out to a party. 7 out of the 12 animal tested high in the openness category. John (2011) stated that “The O-factor in these animals studies resemble the early forms of O observed in human toddlers; lacking advanced language skills, their curiosity is manifested in an intense in novel objects and events, and their imagination is shown in perspective taking and role shifts characteristic of pretend play” (p.70). Another shocking statistic that was found in a study is that the conscientiousness trait was only found in chimpanzees. This is interesting because people often like to point out that primates, such as chimpanzees, have human like tendencies. Such as appearance , or the way they move and