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Translating chimpanzee personality to humans: Investigating the transportability of chimpanzee‐derived personality scales to humans
Author(s) -
Latzman Robert D.,
Sauvigné Katheryn C.,
Hopkins William D.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of primatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1098-2345
pISSN - 0275-2565
DOI - 10.1002/ajp.22522
Subject(s) - personality , psychology , big five personality traits , sample (material) , alternative five model of personality , big five personality traits and culture , developmental psychology , social psychology , chemistry , chromatography
There is a growing interest in the study of personality in chimpanzees with repeated findings of a similar structure of personality in apes to that found in humans. To date, however, the direct translational value of instruments used to assess chimpanzee personality to humans has yet to be explicitly tested. As such, in the current study we sought to determine the transportability of factor analytically‐derived chimpanzee personality scales to humans in a large human sample ( N = 301). Human informants reporting on target individuals they knew well completed chimpanzee‐derived and human‐derived measures of personality from the two most widely studied models of human personality: Big Five and Big Three. The correspondence between informant‐reported chimpanzee‐ and human‐derived personality scales was then investigated. Results indicated high convergence for corresponding scales across most chimpanzee‐ and human‐derived personality scales. Findings from the current study provide evidence that chimpanzee‐derived scales translate well to humans and operate quite similarly to the established human‐derived personality scales in a human sample. This evidence of transportability lends support to the translational nature of chimpanzee personality research suggesting clear relevance of this growing literature to humans. Am. J. Primatol. 78:601–609, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.