The Intersection between Animal Personality, Cognition and Behavior

Dear Colleagues,

The study of animal personality, exploring the role that inter-individual differences play in behavior, is a vibrant and influential field, spanning a broad range of disciplines including, among others, psychology, zoology, conservation and welfare, biology, and anthropology.

This Special Issue aims to highlight new scientific developments, ideas and methods in the field of animal personality that promote an understanding of (i) personality as a source of behavioral variation with consequences for animal sociality, cognition, behavior, welfare and conservation, and (ii) factors and mechanisms that shape or drive this variation. We welcome submissions studying individual differences and/or personality in broad taxa and settings (e.g., wild/captive) to this Special Issue titled ‘The Intersection Between Animal Personality, Cognition and Behavior.’ We particularly encourage the following types of submissions:

• Empirical articles involving multiple-species (comparative) research, single species studies, and/or across contexts (captive, semi-wild, and wild);
• Literature reviews, particularly those pointing to how the field can continue to move forward;
• Commentary and theoretical articles, focusing on methodological perspectives, e.g., innovations in measurement, future directions;
• Protocol papers, with an emphasis on methods / methodological approaches;
• Human research in the context of comparative cognition and behavior.

Dr. Gillian L. Vale
Dr. Bruce Rawlings
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.