Personality predicts the use of social information

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 829-837 The use of social information is known to affect various important aspects of an individual's ecology, such as foraging, dispersal and space use and is generally assumed to be entirely flexible and context dependent. However, the potential link between persona...

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Vydáno v:	Ecology letters Ročník 13; číslo 7; s. 829 - 837
Hlavní autoři:	Kurvers, Ralf H.J.M, van Oers, Kees, Nolet, Bart A, Jonker, Rudy M, van Wieren, Sipke E, Prins, Herbert H.T, Ydenberg, Ron C
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell
Témata:	3-spined sticklebacks Animal and plant ecology Animal behavior Animal ethology animal personalities Animal, plant and microbial ecology Animals Aquatic birds Autoecology Aves avian personalities barnacle geese Barnacle goose Behavior, Animal Biological and medical sciences Birds boldness Branta Branta leucopsis Ecology exploratory-behavior Female foraging Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology geese Geese - physiology great tits individual-differences Male Personality Personality traits physiology Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry public information scrounging behavior social information Social interaction Spatial distribution Vertebrata zebra finches Barnacle goose Decision making Personality social information Anatidae Information use Vertebrata Spatial distribution Branta leucopsis Social interaction boldness Behavior Aves
ISSN:	1461-023X, 1461-0248, 1461-0248
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Shrnutí:	Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 829-837 The use of social information is known to affect various important aspects of an individual's ecology, such as foraging, dispersal and space use and is generally assumed to be entirely flexible and context dependent. However, the potential link between personality differences and social information use has received little attention. In this study, we studied whether use of social information was related to personality, using barnacle geese, Branta leucopsis, where boldness is a personality trait known to be consistent over time. We found that the use of social information decreased with increasing boldness score of the individuals. Individuals had lower feeding times when they did not follow the social information and this effect was unrelated to boldness score. When manipulating social information, thereby making it incorrect, individuals irrespective of their boldness score, learned that it was incorrect and ignored it. Our results show that social information use depends on the personality type of an individual, which calls for incorporation of these personality-related differences in studies of spatial distribution of animals in which social information use plays a role.
Bibliografie:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01473.x ArticleID:ELE1473 istex:9C98AF18DCB02D6F48B6762629E2B67C3B6BED26 ark:/67375/WNG-S8QSGZBB-0 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 14 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23
ISSN:	1461-023X 1461-0248 1461-0248
DOI:	10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01473.x